Analysis of rack him
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
she'll fashion a whip
from the razor wire around her
heart & flog ya with it
leave you in a foggy
puddle you can order floggings
online use discount coupon
code some flagellants will make ya
hurt but never bleed cept internally
do you take platinum?
cat o nine shillelaghs with whipped
cream & cherries three for the
price uh two don't take it
personal tip well they take pride in
their work the flagellance take
that man to the elevator shaft self
flogmeisterings never as
satisfactory why do i do this to
myself is it to save you the trouble or
me the money whatcha doin
friday night pick me up at
eight & chuck me off the
roof before the clock flogs
nine
it was a profoundly tortuous
relationship but fortunately it didn't
last very long
© John Kennan 5-2-21
Scheme | XXABCDXBXXEAXXXCXXDXECX CXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001 101010010 11111 110010 1011101 11011 111111 1110110100 11110 111111 110110 111111 100111110 11011 111010011 1101 010111111 1111110101 101011 1011111 11110 101011 1 110010100 01011000110 1101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 754 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 23, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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