Analysis of Different Measurements
At first I felt extremely angry; frustrated with her ignorance.
How could her concept of poverty
mean earning forty five thousand dollars per year?
Eventually I just felt sad.
For myself, for her, for people with even less.
She has obviously never sat at school
in a dusty, sparse classroom in Africa
or anywhere for that matter,
with a five year old child who is crying uncontrollably
because they can no longer afford to pay their primary school fees.
She has obviously never been there
the following morning
when that five year old child’s seat is empty.
She has obviously never been the one
crying uncontrollably beside the empty seat.
Scheme | XAX XX XXXAX XXA XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101010100 110101100 110101101011 010001111 11101101101 11100010111 0010110100 1101110 10111111100100 0111110011111011 1110001011 010010 1111111110 11100010101 100100010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 627 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 5, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 103 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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