Analysis of I Said
If it happened to me
I said
I would fight till the death
I would run straight to the hospital
I would press charges
I would make his life a living hell
I would scream it from the roof tops
I would not stop until he was behind bars
When it happened to me
I said
Nothing
| Scheme | aBxxxxxx aBx |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011 11 111101 11111010 11110 111110101 11111011 11110111011 111011 11 10 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 258 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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