Analysis of What A Drag
Chris Pearson 1977 (Winnipeg)
WHAT A DRAG
long days
like razorblades
cutting deep
with lack of sleep
and dreams
are what you bleed
mistake want with need
suspend
your disbelief
abandon
your relief
hours crawl
across broken glass
on naked knees
pain is tease
to please is last
the moment's passed
too fast to see
and that is all
it shall ever be
| Scheme | X AABBXCCXDXD EXFFGGHEH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 11 11 101 1111 01 1111 01111 01 101 010 101 101 01101 1101 111 1111 0101 1111 0111 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 294 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 11, 9 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on January 20, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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