Analysis of Bright Lines
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Needle in my arm.
Take me to the farm.” Aerosmith.
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The poets dreamed.” Don MaClean.
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“Living is easy with eyes closed. Misunderstanding all you can see. It’s getting had to be someone; but it all works out. It doesn’t matter much to me.” John Lennon.
Scheme | XXX XX X A B B A |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 10110 10011 1110110 0101 0101101 1010101111110 11111101110 01011111111 1000111111101011111111 10110111001011111101111111111110111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 12 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 63 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Written on February 24, 2025
Submitted on February 24, 2024
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