Analysis of For the One I Loved
You may cheat,lie,and run around.
To put my heart in the ground.
But the love I have will still stand.
While you trample me in the sand.
I may wait a lifetime for your love.
And my life may be short as a dove.
But my love for you will last a lifetime.
| Scheme | AABBCCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 1111001 10111111 11101001 11101111 011111101 111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 248 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 190 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on June 23, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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