Analysis of A Penny
I see a penny. Did someone accidentally drop you,
or did they drop you on purpose?
Pennies are worth the least, but we seem to
collect them the most.
You were lying face down.
It's been said that a penny found face down
is bad luck, and bad luck is something that
I don't need more of.
How this information was found out is a
mystery. A penny is a penny, but I just can't
take that chance. I'm sure I'll find another
down the road. No one likes you anyway.
Good luck penny. If someone picks you up
they don't know what you have in store. Will
you just make them one cent richer?
Or will you ruin their day?
Is the grief you may bring worth a cent?
No way!
Scheme | ABACDDEFGHIJKLIJMJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011010011 11111110 1011011111 01101 101011 1111010111 1110111101 11111 1101011110 10001010101111 1111111010 101111110 111011111 111111011 11111110 1111011 101111101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 638 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 499 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 132 |
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Submitted on June 30, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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