Analysis of Gum
The Sally Rally Bally shop is where I get my fruity gum,
The gum explodes inside my mouth like fallen bombs inside the mines,
I chew my gum to calm my nerves,
Without my gum I lose my mind,
As the flavor melts away the nerves start raging back to me.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 0101010111111101 0101011111010101 11111111 01111111 101010101110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 250 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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