Analysis of Tumbling Down
Censure much
But the prurient, sexual aberration
Mind blowing
Dreams cheat just a bit
Can’t be all straight and proper
There is excitement
Prisoner of infatuation
Body over mind
The risk of life
But not on the edge, tumbling down
| Scheme | ABCDEFBGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 101 10100100010 110 11101 1111010 11010 10010010 10101 0111 111011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 231 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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