Analysis of August 1978
There once came a day
The day I met you,
It turned the gray sky
To a beautiful blue.
You were so pretty
Your eyes big and brown
I could feel my heart start to pound.
We went out for a while
Then I let you go.
There was something about you
But no love would grow.
There once came a day,
The second time I met you.
The sky was already a beautiful blue.
Now we're together
and there is love, love that will grow.
Because you took me by the hand
And helped me to understand.
| Scheme | Abxbxxxxcbc Abbxcdd |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 01111 11011 101001 10110 11101 11111111 111101 11111 1110011 11111 11101 0101111 01101001001 11010 01111111 01111101 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 453 |
| Words | 98 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 181 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on June 07, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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