Analysis of Bucket

Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)



Im working on a list,
I can not call it bucket.
Its not the things i want to do,
But its the things i lived in dread.

With no thought for the future ,
I will tackle bit by bit.
Every enslavement on the list,
that i call the oh fuck it.


Scheme AXXX XBAB
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 110101 1111110 11011111 11011101 1111010 1110111 100010101 1110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 236
Words 59
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 26

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Written on March 03, 2024

Submitted by robertl.92681 on March 03, 2024

Modified by robertl.92681 on March 03, 2024

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