Analysis of Balance Be Damned
Eat the dessert first,
balance be damned
The icing to start
—your cake to withstand
(Las Vegas-Cheesecake Factory: January, 2016)
Scheme | XX XX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (80%) Cinquain (20%) |
Metre | 10011 1011 01011 11101 1101100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 130 |
Words | 20 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 34 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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