Analysis of Life rules
MY LIFE RULES
Take off your shoes.
Put both seats down,
and try not to be a tool.
Always cheers after each new drink
and check to see if the convo sinks
when you repeatedly ask
“are you okay?” -
and don’t take them to task
if they don’t want to play.
Be kind if you can,
and silent if you can’t -
or say what you think
in your mind,
no alarms.
Swift’s life rules are a jumbled up mess,
but so far,
(that I know)
they have kept me from harm.
Scheme | X X XX AXBCBC XXAXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1111 1111 0111101 1110111 01111011 1101001 111 011111 111111 11111 010111 11111 011 101 111101011 111 111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 478 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 6, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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