Analysis of To be
Strong but caring,
Soft and sweet.
Smart but funny,
Demanding and neat.
Good for love,
Good for life,
Will you be my bride, my wife.
| Scheme | ABCBDEE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 101 1110 01001 111 111 1111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 126 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
I wrote this when I was a teenager.
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Written on March 15, 1999
Submitted by scottl.70900 on July 29, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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