Analysis of Guilty or Not Guilty
Walt Sisikin 1953 (Santiago)
Guilty or not Guilty
That is the Question
Whether it is best to admit the crime
Or have me found guilty by trial
Is not the answer
To exonerate me from the wrongs that have been wrought by me
Upon the multitudes that I know intimately
Would be to throw me into the abyss of denial and satisfaction,
That only a guilty person may feel upon his release from justice
Guilty or not Guilty
That is the question
| Scheme | ABcdeaabfAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110 11010 1011110101 111110110 11010 10101101111111 010101111000 111110100110100010 110010101101101110 101110 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 407 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 327 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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