Analysis of On Sale For Thee
Playing in the front window
of your affection
My love became a storefront
for all to see
Displaying what my heart
had kept well hidden
Priced to sell, and tagged
—on sale for thee
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XB XA XB B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1000110 11010 110101 1111 010111 11110 11101 1111 010010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 221 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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