Analysis of Not all I'll be
Hands.
Arms.
Strength I dont own.
Plans.
Fingers.
Taking all that I've known.
All that I was, yes.
But not all that I'll be.
There's peace and there's love
There's happiness for me.
| Scheme | ABCDECFGHG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Etheree (40%) |
| Metre | 1 1 1111 1 10 101111 11111 111111 11011 110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 172 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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