Analysis of Liquor Store
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
He stumbled into the liquor store,
Holding up a an old rusted kitchen knife.
"Give me what I'm after," he slurred,
As he demanded the bottle he chose.
The clerk was taken aback,
Thinking he had a thief to fight.
But the drunk just wanted his fix,
To drown his sorrows all night.
He wasn't there for the money,
He had none to spare.
Just a man on a mission,
To drown away his despair.
He cracked open the bottle,
Taking a swig with a sigh.
Ahhh, sweet relief,
As he watched the world go by.
No one would understand,
The pain that led him here.
The bottle his only friend,
In a world that didn't care.
Scheme | XXXX XAXA XBXB XCXC XXXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 110010101 10101110101 11111011 1101001011 0111001 10110111 10111011 1111011 11011010 11111 1011010 1101101 1110010 1001101 1101 1110111 11101 011111 0101101 0011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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