Analysis of Olivia



we had only crossed paths once
but your light has illuminated the dark sunken place inside of me
even deep within the depths of purgatory
you have granted my soul a pleasant ease
where hell can no longer torment me
as long as I remember your beauty


Scheme ABBCBB
Poetic Form
Metre 1110111 11110100011010111 10101011100 1110110101 11111011 1111010110
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 254
Words 52
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 202
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted by jaxonhurst on November 16, 2022

Modified on April 26, 2023

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