Analysis of young man

Curtis Allison

strarting out in life.
no one knew why.
you wear deft.
eighteen is a hard time to live with out a wife.
young man , i will never now why,
i will never for get you.
i still wounder why !
you took your life.
young man .young man why?

Scheme ABCABDBAB
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 1111 111 011011111101 11111011 1110111 1111 1111 11111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 223
Words 48
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 171
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted on August 24, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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