Analysis of Only If She Was Mine



every time i see them im drowning in despise,
she makes me want to cry,
her eyes tell their own stories,
ones i know aren’t lies,
the way she looks at him,
will never be the same as mine,
i don’t understand why.


Scheme ABCADEB
Poetic Form
Metre 1001111110001 111111 0111110 111101 011111 11010111 11011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 216
Words 49
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 160
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted by kamryn_ on May 12, 2024

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