Analysis of Acrostic Poem: Be For Real!!

Belinda Richmond 1979 (Chicago)



B - affled that you had to tell me a Fib
E - agared to listen to what you really did

F - iguring out what the Hell to do next
O - nly to find out you have been seeing your ex
R - eminiscing back on the times we shared

R - ealizing the fact you were never there
E - vidently seeing you didn't even care
A - ware of the fact you were never around
L - eaving me for that chic from downtown

B.R.
                Date: 12/3/2022


Scheme XX XXX AAXX AX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111101 11110111101 111101111 111111111011 11110111 110110101 1110110101 01101101001 111111111 1 1
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 464
Words 103
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 4, 2
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Written on December 03, 2023

Submitted by belindar.65825 on December 06, 2022

Modified on April 26, 2023

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