Analysis of Empty
Empty….
I gave you so much.
I gave you my life.
I gave you my all,
and now there's not nothing left in me to give.
You took my core,
then shredded it into pieces with your bare hands.
Now I'm deteriorating at a distance,
and don't know how to pick up the pieces.
| Scheme | XXXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 11111 11111 11111 01111010111 1111 110101101111 11010001010 0111111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 263 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on August 21, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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