Analysis of A Writer
If I wanted to show you what I see
I’d be a painter
If I wanted to offer you salvation
I’d be a preacher
If I wanted to play to your fantasy
I’d be an actor
But I decided to give you more than that
—I’m a writer
(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2018)
| Scheme | AB XB AB XB B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110111111 11010 11101101010 11010 11101111100 11110 1110111111 1010 010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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