Analysis of Overcoming yourself before tomorrow
A beautiful butterfly,
on its last flight.
Please do not shed a tear,
As it approaches the light.
All its life it had to fight,
Facing one by one its fear.
Its biggest one was in the mirror,
The reflection of no one near….
| Scheme | X A X A A B X B |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010 1111 111101 1101001 1111111 1011111 110110010 00101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 21 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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