Analysis of Addictions IV



“Hey, how’s it goin’?” you said,
calling me up on your cigarette break.
Good to know how you think of me
between puffs of smoke.
I’d like to think of myself as more
than just another one of your
addictions, but you know how
vices often go hand in hand


Scheme ABCDEEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 101111011 11111111 01111 11111111 11010111 0101111 10101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 261
Words 54
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 191
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Written on 2018

Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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