Analysis of All The King's Horses
Parenting is now a
full contact sport
No lines demarcated,
no rules to enforce
The children still babies,
the adults still kids
Diapering the future
—attached at the hip
(State College Pennsylvania: February, 2020)
| Scheme | XA AX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100110 111 111 11101 010110 00111 100010 01101 110010100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 34 |
| 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) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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