Analysis of Road Trip
A pocketful of loose change
in the unused ash tray
vibrates against
an admission button
from an air show of long ago.
That foreign buzz somehow nicely complements
the hum of the air conditioning and the purr
of the Detroit motor under the hood,
underscored by a snappy Jazz tune that
floats out of the factory speakers
like the soundtrack to the latest car
commercial hawking its wares.
Sure-grip Goodyear rubber
cruises along winding asphalt
at seventy-five miles per hour as you
enjoy the beautiful scenery scrolling by,
while squadrons of suicide insects
throw themselves at your front windshield.
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Metre | 010111 000111 1001 101010 11111101 1101110100 011010100001 1001101001 011010111 111010010 10110101 0101011 111010 1001101 11001111011 01010010011 1101101 1011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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