Analysis of Stepford Wife

Marlena Landis-Bailey 1970 (Indiana)



I'm like a Stepford life without a knife. A

Knife to cut through the blue, because

blue is the color. But everyone sees green

green as the grass. But i still hate my ass.


Scheme X X X X
Poetic Form
Metre 1101101010 11110101 1101011011 1101111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 215
Words 36
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted on April 02, 2021

Modified on March 25, 2023

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