Analysis of Never
Courtney Milligan 1990
There has never been a time
Never been a place
My heart never skipped a beat
It can’t be traced
The broken pieces I couldn’t find
That left my childhood dreams behind
The beginning of the end
The end of the beginning
My life was over
Before I was living
| Scheme | ABCDEEFGHG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) |
| Metre | 1110101 10101 1110101 1111 01010111 1111101 0010101 0110010 11110 011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 263 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 202 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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