Analysis of Transactional Love
I offered two nickels,
she demanded a dime
It wasn’t enough,
her anger declined
“Can’t you make change,”
she then shouted aloud
And while counting my failures,
her voice reendowed
But the count was undone,
all divisors were shunned
My offerings
attacked
With her vault locking down,
and my ledger unbound
The numbers red
—not black
(Dreamsleep: October, 2020)
| Scheme | XXXA XXXA XXXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110 101001 1101 01001 1111 111001 0110110 011 101101 1101 1100 01 101101 011001 0101 11 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 355 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on October 25, 2020
Modified by KurtPhilipBehm on October 25, 2020
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