Analysis of Alone



The silence is deafening,
your ears ring and roar.
The phone doesn’t ring,
no-one at the door.


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 0101100 11101 0111 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 95
Words 17
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 72
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 24, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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