Analysis of a friends life taken
Around the corner I have a friend,
In this great city that has no end,
Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,
And before I know it, a year is gone.
And I never see my old friends face,
For life is a swift and terrible race.
| Scheme | AABCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101101 011101111 101110111 0011110111 011011111 1110101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 217 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on April 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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