Analysis of Being Single Isn’t Bad (Bussokusekika)

Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)



Being Single Isn’t Bad   (Bussokusekika)

I had forgotten
What being a man was like
Am I not a man
I guess I was pussy-whipped
I feared thoughts of loneliness
Being single isn’t bad

Edwin Tanguma   Aka   Dagesh    3/30/2024


Scheme A XAXXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 1010111 11010 1100111 11101 1111101 1111100 101011 10010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 228
Words 40
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 6, 1
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 56
Words per stanza (avg) 16

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Written on March 30, 2024

Submitted by EdwinRayTanguma on March 30, 2024

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