Analysis of Crossing Guard
A worried elderly woman without a pension
Life was getting hard
She needed to find a job
She became a crossing guard
She was a caring woman
With kindness and grace
When the children walked up to her
A smile was always on her face
For a little old lady
The children thought she was pretty cool
She always asked how their day was
And what they were doing in school
And as she got to know the kids
Her loneliness went away
She had found new friendships
She looked foward to every new school day
Scheme | ABXB ACXC XDXD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0101001001010 11101 1101101 1010101 1101010 11001 10101110 0111101 1010110 010111101 1111111 01101001 01111101 0100101 111110 1111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 05, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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