Analysis of Did You Fall In Love?



Did you simply fall
or
did you get a shove?

Did you simply fall
or
did you float above?

Did you simply fall
or
did you fall in love?


Scheme ABc ABc ABc
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 1 11101 11101 1 11101 11101 1 11101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 124
Words 29
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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