Analysis of When I Suspected
Spike Milligan 1918 (Ahmednagar, India) – 2002 (Rye, United Kingdom)
There will be a time when it will end.
Be it parting
Be it death
So each passing minute with you
Pendulummed with sadness.
So many times
I looked long into your face.
I could hear the clock ticking.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011111 1110 111 11101011 1110 1101 1110111 1110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 191 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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