Analysis of Don't Bother To Ask
With subconscious desire,
my blood pressure on fire
The needle ready to break
through the glass
I try to calm down,
as the muse rises and pounds
Saying…
"Don't---even bother to ask”
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2105)
| Scheme | AA XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010010 1110110 0101011 101 11111 1011001 10 1101011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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