Analysis of Whenever You’re Not There

Wallace Dean LaBenne

The world loses pleasant esprit
The world seems sad and bare
The world loses camaraderie
whenever you’re not there

Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 01101001 011101 01100100 010111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 113
Words 19
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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