Analysis of Perhaps



Perhaps I'm the little shimmer of light from a particle in the snow. Maybe one person has seen me, so I become real. Perhaps I'm a colourful bird who landed expertly on a branch in the sun showing off the perfection of my feathers. Someone looking through the window saw me, so I became real. But, perhaps we are all real regardless... and nobody needs to see us do anything to make us so.


Scheme A
Poetic Form
Metre 0110101011101000011011011111011011011110100101001101001011101101010111101110111110100111111101111
Characters 389
Words 74
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 1
Lines Amount 1
Letters per line (avg) 303
Words per line (avg) 74
Letters per stanza (avg) 303
Words per stanza (avg) 74
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Submitted on February 10, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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