Analysis of It’s Your Funeral



Tough love is for real
because it is the only thing that works.
Is love a lie?
All I can do is clear up the confusion
and you decide your options.


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tanka  (60%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Lanturne  (20%)
Metre 11111 0111010111 1101 11111110010 011110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 146
Words 33
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Written on February 21, 2024

Submitted on February 21, 2024

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