Analysis of Etienne (ay-tee-yen)



I tried to tell the French girl Jen,
My name in French is Etienne,
But I believe she did not care
Because she saw my underwear.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Tanaga 
Metre 11110111 11011100 11011111 0111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 127
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 26

About this poem

I took one year of French in high school.

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Written on August 17, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on August 17, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on August 17, 2023

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