Analysis of Tomorrow, I'll Get It Right
Drunk in Barstow,
waiting for a waitress,
who gets off at 2:00 a.m.
The crap game cleaned me,
two bums on the pool table,
snoring like a train
Drunk in Barstow,
third time this month,
I just never seem to learn
The waitress said,
“My boyfriend’s gone,
truck’s on the road to Bern”
Drunk in Barstow,
on borrowed time,
the repo man at hand
I swear tomorrow
I’ll get it right,
tonight—any way I can
(Barstow California: July, 1991)
| Scheme | Axx xxx Axb xxb Axx axx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 101010 11111 01111 1110110 10101 101 1111 1110111 0101 111 110111 101 111 010111 1101 1111 0110111 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 423 |
| Words | 81 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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