Analysis of The lonesome death of Tyler Townsend



Xmas eve 2020 was the coldest night for
a decade.  
And a harbinger of doom for anyone without
shelter
Tyler Townsend was one of the unlucky ones
not to get refuge from the artic weather.

As he trudged his broken body through the
broken streets, despair clung tightly to him like a straight jacket.

He cut a forlorn and desolate figure with his long stringy yellow hair looking like angel hair pasta hanging from a plate.

Tyler sat down in the doorway of a McDonald's.
He wrapped his sleeping bag tightly around himself.
He could feel the cold in his bones.
His ice cold hands that clung to life began
to loosen its grip until he was hanging by his
fingertips

As the clock struck midnight his fingertips slipped from the edge.


Scheme XXXAXA XX X XXXXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 11101011 001 001001111001 10 101011100101 1111010110 1111101010 101011101110110 11001010010111101011011011010101 101100110010 111101100101 11101011 1111111101 1101101111011 10 101111101101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 740
Words 149
Sentences 8
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 6, 2, 1, 6, 1
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 26

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About dying on the street

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Written on February 01, 2023

Submitted by pauljoe77 on May 20, 2023

Modified by pauljoe77 on July 28, 2023

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Paul Marauder

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