Analysis of The Call of Cheap.
The call of cheap is prosaic
but made attractive in vague
by adding fringes in opague
gaining validity by terms
of advertisements and in form
reaching out to frailties in storm.
Cheap once upon a time
meant something derogatory and crime
that which is not approved by all
that which stood for low quality in all
that which also indicates bad behaviour all in all..
Cheap has risen to lofty high
with free bies and hoarse cries.
Cheap air tickets go with tries
no other facilities in the skies
being caged in an aircraft for hours
without air and space in a tower.
Scheme | AXAXBB CCDDD XEEEXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111010 1101001 1101001 10010011 1100001 10111001 110101 110010001 11110111 1111110001 11101011101 11101101 111011 1110111 1100100001 101011110 011010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 559 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 152 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on April 27, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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