Analysis of Would You



Would you give two cents back,
  if I were to give you a dime

Would you slightly then trust,
  if I pledged all of mine

Would you carry me astray,
  if I could then lead you back

Would you love me just once,
  --- if I loved you forever like that

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April. 2015)


Scheme AX XX XA XX X
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 11011101 111011 111111 1110101 1111111 111111 111101011 01001010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 276
Words 55
Sentences 2
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 10, 2015

Modified on March 13, 2023

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Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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