Analysis of Doing Well
Living large, living small,
living in an urban sprawl.
Playing hard, playing fair,
playing at the village square.
Dancing fast, dancing slow,
dancing everywhere you go.
Serving man, serving God,
serving time for gadget fraud.
Cruising loose, cruising free,
cruising on a sapphire sea.
Driving near, driving far,
driving in a sheriff's car.
Jumping up, jumping down,
jumping for a victor's crown.
Loving some, loving all,
loving even serfdom thrall.
Singing high, singing low,
singing in a minstrel's show.
Doing well, doing good,
doing everything you should.
Scheme | AABBCCDEFFGGHHAACCII |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 101101 1001101 101101 1010101 101101 101011 101101 1011101 101101 10101001 101101 1000101 101101 1010101 101101 101011 101101 100011 101101 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 539 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 439 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on January 13, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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