Analysis of To Be Sage
You're trying to sleep
after breaking every bone in your body,
by throwing yourself against cement walls.
But you cannot sleep
from the pain
not the broken bones,
but growing pains.
Because you have to learn from your mistakes somehow.
| Scheme | AXX AXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 101010010110 1100101011 11101 101 10101 1101 01111111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 230 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on October 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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