Analysis of Wasted Ways
Haze, craze, behave, save
See Dave get a job and slave
Trade, wave, brave
Live in a cave
Pave, gave, raced
And to end up one day in the grave
Mourn and to be a fave.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 1110101 111 1001 111 011111001 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 165 |
Words | 36 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Written on June 11, 2023
Submitted on June 11, 2023
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