Analysis of I Tell Her



Love laughs in my face
I tell her,
If you do not want me
Why will you not leave me be?


Scheme ABCC
Poetic Form
Metre 11011 110 111111 1111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 86
Words 21
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 64
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Submitted by dreadedwords on November 04, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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