Analysis of Not Real
You live to tell a story,
but what of it is true?
You tell of lifelong glory,
but what did it make of you?
I ponder all your ideas,
make believe what isn't real.
You turned me into a story.
I know none of it is real.
| Scheme | ABAB XCAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111010 111111 1111110 1111111 11011010 1011101 11101010 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on November 29, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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