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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