Analysis of Girls

Kelly L. Hanna 1982 (Philly)



Two Girls walked down the street...
Both were kind. Both were sweet.
The secret though, that they keep....
The cost would not be cheap.
So they whisper and they weep.
They curse the bread, go without the meat.
This is a defeat and they feel weak.
Together they creep and secretly sleep....
But they won't go quietly.
No, they won't go silently.
And they won't go violently.
So they sew their mouths
And they shear their hair.
They shut us out.
They just don't care.
Oh, the secret that they share!
And this life just isn't fair...
The crowd will leer.
The time is here.
Night will fall
To reveal their fear,
Once and for all.
The curtains draw.
The crowd's in awe,
The girls, gripped with fear.
It was no secret at all.
Applause is what they hear.


Scheme AABBBACBDDDEFGFFFFHIJIKLJIH
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 101101 0101111 011111 1110011 110110101 110010111 0101101001 1111100 1111100 01111000 11111 01111 1111 1111 1010111 0111101 0111 0111 111 10111 1011 0101 0101 01111 1111011 011111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 726
Words 140
Sentences 24
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 27
Lines Amount 27
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 562
Words per stanza (avg) 139
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