Analysis of Life in a box
Tammy L Burgess 1962 (United States)
I live me life in a box.
In a room with lots of locks.
No windows or doors,
Just walls and some floors.
I live my life in a box.
| Scheme | AABBA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Limerick |
| Metre | 1111001 0011111 11011 11011 1111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 124 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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I live in a nursing home and this is my day to day life.
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