Analysis of Balance
Jack Graham 1975 (Belfast)
Modern, balance sources of validation
When it's way too early, for alcohol
day's want to hurt as badly as the nights
Rub out jagged edges with co codamol
It only muddies this holy water
Stack like wood, reasons to live, for later
I only need to get hurt once, to know
NPC's painted on faces, every heart hollow
Love prefers cliche themes of drunkenness
Pain hungover consequence of balance
While these young fools gamble with happiness
can never be ready to take that chance
I have fostered a us Vs them mentality
Us become you became them eventually
| Scheme | XAXA BBCC DXDX EE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101010 111110110 1111110101 11110111 110111010 1111011110 1101111111 110110100110 1010111100 11100110 1111101100 1101101111 1110011010100 101101101000 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 561 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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I'm trying to do sonnets in 10 syllables for verses then 12 for end couplet here is a recent example about modern love
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