Analysis of The mind reader

Andrew Skinner 1975 (Southend on Sea)



I bet you didn't know,
That I had a secret power,
That I can read minds,
Right now you don't believe me,
See I told you,
I just read your mind.


Scheme ABCDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 11101010 11111 1111011 1111 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 143
Words 36
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 105
Words per stanza (avg) 31

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Written on November 27, 2022

Submitted by Southendandy on November 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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