Analysis of Why?
Why does it feel illegal
to want to be around
someone that makes you feel
after all these years, found?
Why does it feel illegal,
this bond between us?
Why does everyone around me
make such a fuss?
Why does it feel illegal,
wanting to live with them,
because in a world of rocks,
they are the only gem?
Why does it feel illegal,
a love of this kind?
I wish others’ words
would stay out of my mind.
| Scheme | Abxb Acxc Adxd Aexe |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1111010 111101 11111 101111 1111010 11011 1110011 1101 1111010 101111 0100111 110101 1111010 01111 11101 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 403 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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