Analysis of Life's Tenancy
Was that dollar Sunday morning
a twenty Saturday night
Is that empty bottle you can barely see
the excuse that started the fight
Is that torn and tattered jacket
what was once your Sunday best
Is your life worth more than nineteen dollars
eyes blackened—never to rest
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110110 0101001 11101011101 00111001 11101010 111111 1111111110 1101011 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 308 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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