Analysis of Take Away



Take away my pains.
Take away these chains.
Take away my stains.
Take away these tears.
Take away my fears.
Take away all the things that are imperfect.
Take away all the things that defect.


Scheme AAABCDE
Poetic Form
Metre 10111 10111 10111 10111 10111 10110111010 101101110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 184
Words 35
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 149
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on September 15, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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