Analysis of Fatal Glances
Every time you make a new friend,
I make a new enemy
Every time you swear that you won’t,
my world falls apart
Every time you say it’s the last,
my grief is reborn
Every time I look in your eyes
—the future is lost
(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100111011 1101100 100111111 11101 100111101 11111 100111011 01011 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 237 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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