Analysis of Not Enough Soap
Too many choices,
not enough reasons
Too many memories,
not enough hope
Too many excuses,
begging forgiveness
Too much to launder
—not enough soap
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | XX XA XX XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010 10110 110100 1011 110010 10010 11110 1011 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 01, 2017
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on August 24, 2019
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