Analysis of Short & Dear
My life,
dumped onto paper
My love,
deep in the beer
The years,
a fateful mirror
With time now short
—and dear
(Memories Of The Main Point: November, 1972)
‘Dinner With Jerry Jeff Walker’
| Scheme | XA XB XA XB AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 11 11010 11 1001 01 01010 1111 01 1001011010 10110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 202 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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