Analysis of Make Friends with You
Marty Sullivan 1948 (Atherton)
Make friends with you
Your skin and bones
Listen carefully
Feel your body
Moving through space
Let arising sounds arise
Embrace all the senses
Be a lover of you
| Scheme | ABCCDEFA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1101 10100 1110 1011 1010101 011010 101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 153 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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