Analysis of A Bottle in Hand
I lay on the ground and cried.
Why, oh why, did I have to die?
I saw it happen before me.
It was the only thing I could see.
Watching it caused me much pain.
I was driving too fast in the rain.
With a half full bottle in my hand.
No way I would miss the band.
My mind it could not grasp.
It all happened way too fast.
The car just slammed into a tree.
And in that, it was the end of me.
I rose off the ground and cried.
Why, oh why, did I have to die?
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 11111111 11110011 110101111 1011111 111011001 101110011 1111101 111111 1110111 01110101 001110111 1110101 11111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 438 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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