Analysis of Dear Mom,
Mom,
I wasn't upset
That you didn't love me.
I didn't need
Love.
Tolerance can be enough
If you smile and nod along.
I made it enough.
It's not that I was too difficult to love
It's that I was too difficult
To even like.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGFEHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 11001 111011 1101 1 1001101 1110101 11101 11111110011 11111100 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 221 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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