Analysis of Acrostic Poem: Are you Serious?

Belinda Richmond 1979 (Chicago)



A - Always the one to want to Play games
R - Realizing that you are just not the same
E - Even though we have grown far apart

Y - You were the one that left from the start
O - Only problem is that you have changed
U - Undeniably you have become estranged

S - Since you have decided to go astray
E - Elated to see you go far away
R - Relieved that you are No longer around
I - Influenced from others that you were a clown
O - Over the top and completely deranged
U - Under some control and very unhinged
S - So very Happy that we have come to an End

B.R.
                       Date: 12/3/2022


Scheme XXA ABB CCXXBXX CX
Poetic Form
Metre 010111111 11001111101 1101111101 1100111101 1101011111 10100110101 1111101101 10101111101 10111111001 110011011001 11001001001 11010101001 1110101111111 1 1
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 634
Words 133
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 7, 2
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Written on December 03, 2022

Submitted by belindar.65825 on December 06, 2022

Modified on April 30, 2023

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