Analysis of A grown man cries
Joshua Moulton 1979 (Illinois)
It takes you by surprise when you see a grown man cry,
You know they are tears he can't hide,If he could he would rather keep them inside.
You only see these tears when the love of his life is saying goodbye.
| Scheme | ABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 1111011110111 111111111111101101 1101111011111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 54 |
| Words per line (avg) | 14 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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