Analysis of Tell me why



Why is the earth round
explain to me why I care
shouldn't I just live my life
why must you never care


Scheme ABCB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Simple 4-line
Metre 11011 0111111 1011111 111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 98
Words 22
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 79
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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