Analysis of To Do



I got two jobs
To do

at the table I
clean and I
serve

Two jobs are mine
To do

And one is bitter
and the other's sweet

Oh, sweet the others
that's what
They do


Scheme xA bbx xA xx xxa
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 11 10101 101 1 1111 11 01110 00101 11010 11 11
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 164
Words 41
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 3, 2, 2, 3
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 10
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 24
Words per stanza (avg) 7

About this poem

It's just something that came to my mind while listening to a lecture.

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Written on July 29, 2022

Submitted by halliday_ms98 on August 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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