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.


Scheme AAAABAA
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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