Analysis of And I WAS



Together we fall
Divided we stand
Four fingers first forward
Then closed as we walk hand in hand
Smiles of so many styles
Thoughts provoking mass charity
But each in it's own makes it worth while
And THAT my friend, is why they are scared of me.


Scheme ABCBDEFE
Poetic Form
Metre 01011 01011 110110 11111101 111101 10101100 110111111 01111111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 238
Words 47
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 196
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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