Analysis of Ode to self defeat.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
She pulled the cereal out of the cupboard,
and slammed the door,
not wanting to read the instructions that day, let alone understand them anymore.
| Scheme | ABB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 11010011010 0101 1101100101110101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 144 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
Admitting defeat when you've reached the limits of your forgiveness and not being able to cry.
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Written on September 11, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on September 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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