Analysis of Getting Made Up
The aging wife spent a great deal of
Time applying make-up to
Improve her aesthetic.
She didn’t fully appreciate that,
In the eyes of her aging husband,
Love was the most potent cosmetic.
| Scheme | XXA XXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010110111 1010111 010010 11100101 001101010 110110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 191 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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