Analysis of Mother-In-Law



They say your title is mother-in-law
But I'll have to disagree
It wasn't the law that put us together
It was God who gave you to me.


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 1111011001 1111001 11001111010 11111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 129
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on January 20, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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