Analysis of If It Wasn't For You
If it wasn’t for your eyes
I would have nothing to gaze upon,
If it wasn’t for your lips
I would have nothing to place mine on.
If it wasn’t for your hair
I would have nothing to stroke,
Because of your understandings
I have reasons to cope.
If it wasn’t for your hands
I would have nothing to reach out to,
If it wasn’t for your smile
Each of my days would be blue.
If it wasn’t for your arms
I would know no caress,
Not the heat from another
While touching chest to chest.
If it wasn’t for you
What would I do,
I truly have the slightest clue.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFGHIJIKLMNIII |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 111101101 111111 111101111 111111 1111011 01110010 111011 111111 111101111 111111 1111111 111111 111101 1011010 110111 11111 1111 11010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 541 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 418 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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