Analysis of "sorry is not enough"
In life there is but one chance,
one fleeting moment that has escaped me,
for this I am sorry to be the last to know.
In relation to your silent sedation of my unyielding attention.
If I were to say good-bye it would only be but a lie as it has so many times before.
Now, I am on the brink having broken at the bend.
Your actions spoke louder than my words and for this sorry is not enough.
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111111 1101011011 111110110111 0010111001011010010 110111111101101111110101 1111011010101 110110111011101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 384 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 302 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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