Analysis of Looking up
Kelly Shows 1987
When I look up at the stars
I think of being very far
I wouldn’t mind being there
I wouldn’t give a single care.
| Scheme | X X A A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101 11110101 111101 1110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 115 |
| Words | 24 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 22 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on April 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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