Analysis of True to yourself



Be true to yourself and you will see,
that you are who you are meant to be.
Don’t change for others as they won’t for you,
stay as you are and your dreams will come true.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Metre 111010111 111111111 1111011111 1111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 171
Words 36
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 129
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on June 05, 2018

Modified on March 05, 2023

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