Analysis of Literacy
Ignorance leads illiterates astray
Ain’t you indebted to Oh! learned?
It’s your bounden duty
Reach the unreached
Teach the untaught
Illiteracy?
No more a reality
| Scheme | ABCBBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 100110001 11010111 11110 101 101 01000 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 159 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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