Analysis of i/m sorry



i/m sorry if i depress you
you see i dont mean to
i just want to remind you
of all the wrongs we do

we chop down all the forest
pollute the rivers and seas
rip up all the meadows
mankind and all his greeds


Scheme AAAA XBXB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 111011011 111111 1111011 110111 1111010 0101001 11101 110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 198
Words 45
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on August 27, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Alan Green 'Guppyman'

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