Analysis of As Little As, Too Much!



Forced into checking the weeks pay
homeless preparations, one week away
driven by necessity, penniless wise
spending idle time, paying that buys
control over your own survival, adds
simple overhead, or complex pads
hope in a system, corporations made
wages earned, and products we trade
fortunes, less fortunate, and wills
checking daily mail, and outgoing bills
hardships and ownership’s, buying and selling
compulsive counter top, advertising compelling
begging and egging, borrowing too
more of something used, rather than new
grocery carts, travelers city bound
nameless faces, lost all around
majority struggling, different patterns secure
bums with cardboard signs, passerby's blur
self made, others paid, some we just aid
keeping in touch, with, as little, as too much!


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJDK
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 10110011 100101101 10101001001 101011011 0110110101 101011101 100100101 10101011 10110001 101010101 100110010 010101100010 100101001 111011011 1001100101 10101101 01001001001001 111111 111011111 10011110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 778
Words 117
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 634
Words per stanza (avg) 117

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25 of 175

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Submitted by Soul-to-song on June 03, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Brian Oliveri

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