Analysis of El Diablo Saloon
Every bottle on the shelf tells a story
about some young fool’s fall from glory.
Stop and listen for a moment if you can
for in the bottom of the bottle lies the man.
Some won’t quit drinking til ‘last call’
others keep on drinking til they fall.
Some die from drinking...they just fold,
so it’s said…”When they stopped…they stopped cold.”
Some think the world has much more class
when seen thru the bottom of a wine glass.
They claim their thinking is so much quicker
which they attribute to the vintage not the liquor.
Every bottle on the shelf tells a story
about some hapless man or woman’s fall from glory.
Stop and listen for a moment if you will.
Have a drink. Have another. Have your fill.
Scheme | Aabb ccdd eeff Aagg |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 100101011010 011111110 10101010111 100101010101 11110111 101110111 111111 111111111 11011111 1110101011 1111011110 111010101010 100101011010 011101111110 10101010111 1011010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 702 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
About this poem
all about delusion
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