Analysis of A Less Embarrasing Expense



The one main thing anyone these days can do.
Is their best to stay as alert and conscious.
And pray to remain that way.
Regardless how difficult this challenging task,
For them everyday to face.
To know,
It had not been that long ago...
When they remember running after rainbows.
Only to bump into a tree,
Disbelieving it would not move...
For fools caught up chasing delusions.

'Your head?
Bandaged as if you were in an accident.
What on Earth happened to you?'

'You won't believe this but...
I ran into a tree.'

'And...uh...
Where was this tree?'

'Across the street where I live.
Blocking a rainbow.
I could have sworn I saw,
This huge pot of gold at the end of it!'

'You know...
I would have said,
Bad Haircut Day.
That would have been more believable.
Your partner got tired of your nonsense?
And got one of those cast iron pots.
And knocked you back into reality?'

'I wish.
It would have been,
A less embarrassing expense.
Even the people at the hospital,
Asked me if I wanted to report...
A domestic violence incident.


Scheme AXBXXCCXDXX EFA XD AD XCXX CEBGHXD XXHGXF
Poetic Form Tetractys  (23%)
Metre 0111101111 11111101010 0110111 010110011001 1110111 11 11111101 1101010101 10110101 00101111 111110010 11 10111001100 1111011 110111 110101 1 1111 0101111 1001 111111 1111110111 11 1111 111 111110100 1101101110 011111101 01110110 11 1111 01010001 100101010 111110101 0010100100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,005
Words 197
Sentences 31
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 11, 3, 2, 2, 4, 7, 6
Lines Amount 35
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted by lpahtillah on June 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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