Analysis of The Apple in My Hand
The apple in my hand is rotting
It’s decay like perfume
Your apple is alive
Teeming with life
Oh, how I wish I had your apple!
To get rid of my tainted fruit
And exchange for your wondrous crop
Would surely be a marvel
My apple is rotting
Yours is alive
You pity mine
And I yearn yours
Scheme | A X B X C X X C A B X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010011110 101101 110101 1011 111111110 11111101 00111101 1101010 110110 1101 1101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 303 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 19 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 5 |
About this poem
This poem is about the desire to live somebody else's life. I wrote this poem because I've always wondered what it would be like to be somebody else.
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