Analysis of Shortage
No food, water or food,
This is a Shortage.
Most dead from starvation,
Some from disorganised pyjamas.
Not folded, creased or pizza.
No house to cook the air.
Right about now some food would be nice,
'I can't' He said, i ate all the rice.
Scheme | XXXA AXAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011 11010 111010 1111 1101110 111101 101111111 111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 242 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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