Analysis of shooting from the lip
shot to the heart
you didn't need a gun
just killer words...spat like bullets
I SWEAR...blue smoke curled from the corner of your mouth
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 110101 1101110 11111010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 132 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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