Analysis of Work
Dena Falken 1967 (Ames, Iowa)
It is this that gives us joy
When we express what we love
We do not toil in suck work
Sometimes we have to write to prevent us from a jerk
We carry on
Hope to bless those that deserve
| Scheme | ABCCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 1101111 1111011 0111111011101 1101 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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