Analysis of I Must

Steve Cochrane 1955 (Cape)



I need to say I love you.
I have to show I care.
I want to show it's quite true;
I love you everywhere!


Scheme ABAB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1111111 111111 1111111 11110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 103
Words 27
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 75
Words per stanza (avg) 24

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Written on January 08, 2024

Submitted by stevec.24118 on January 08, 2024

Modified by stevec.24118 on January 08, 2024

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