Analysis of Scot-Free
They don’t kill politicians anymore
though some might say they should
Those vermin breeding malcontents
all worms in rotten wood
To feast on dreams of hope and change
and sell what pain has bought
They rape our souls in daylight scorned
—no punishment when caught
(The New Room: July, 2022)
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101001 111111 1101001 110101 11111101 011111 11101011 110011 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 297 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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