Analysis of Two men in one man out.



Two men in,
Two to be fightin'.
A duel to the death.
One man out,
That's what it's about.
The survivor reigns,
 To fight again.


Scheme AABCCDE
Poetic Form
Metre 110 1111 010101 111 11101 00101 1101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 121
Words 25
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 13
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on April 02, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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