Analysis of You Do Just Fine!



You're not my brother nor my son.
You're not my father; I've only one.
You're not my uncle and you're not
A grandfather that death had bought.
No, you are not a kin of mine,
But as a friend, you do just fine!


Scheme AABBCC
Poetic Form Sestain
Metre 11110111 111101101 11110011 0101111 11110111 11011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 208
Words 47
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 43

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Friendship

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Written on September 02, 2023

Submitted by stevec.24118 on September 05, 2023

Modified by stevec.24118 on September 05, 2023

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