Analysis of When Reality Hits



You talked about it
I cried about it
Just a single sentence
A single word
Scared me more
Than your diagnosis ever could
Because to hear you say it
So casually
Like it could really happen
Made me realize
It could.


Scheme AABCDEAFGHE
Poetic Form
Metre 11011 11011 101010 0101 111 11010101 0111111 11000 1111010 1110 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 202
Words 41
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 171
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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