Analysis of Passerby
her fingertips are frigid and her figure is frail, so she scurries in the flurries that the winter entails
a few years of heartbreak since the loss of her father, and too little a voice to ever cause any bother.
She bit her tongue in the case of an error and with heart-pinned-to-sleeve, she was the shy wearer—
she passes, face-down, the boy of her dreams
because quiet love is silly, or so it seems
and he told her, “be yourself, kid, that will always be enough,
but if you are not willing to sound stupid,
then you don't deserve to be in love."
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101100010111110010101001 01111101101001100111011010 11010011110011111110110 1101101101 011011101111 01101011111101 11111101110 111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 544 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 53 |
Words per line (avg) | 13 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 423 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on August 15, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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