Analysis of Told myself

Crystal church 1985 (White)



I told myself once, I got two choice,
s to fight and to live......
 or to give up and die. THen I answered myself .......imma sit here and cry!


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11111111 111011 1111011110111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 141
Words 29
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on January 24, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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