Analysis of The Diver



You took a header
And it took me 20 years to grasp
I am not your lifeline
No one is
You embraced the bottle
Swim on your own


Scheme ABCDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 11010 0111111 11111 111 101010 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 119
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on August 13, 2021

Submitted by Aurora on August 16, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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