Analysis of Sorry, but, that'S the way that it is



Life is what it is, what I made of it.
Thanks be to the lord or it would have worse.
Sorry, but, that's the way that it is.
At least I was never behind bars!


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 1110111111 101101111 111110011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 154
Words 35
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted by waltjack450 on July 08, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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W. T. JACKSON

PUBLISHED TWO BOOKS, POETIC I & II. NARRATIVE POETRY WHICH TENDS TO BE INSPIRATIONAL. more…

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