Analysis of Short But True
What is their to do,
On this beautiful day,
Except to remind you that,
You take my breath away.
Scheme | ABCB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain Simple 4-line |
Metre | 11111 111001 0110111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 92 |
Words | 19 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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