Analysis of Work And Play
My work for oil and play for water
are time well spent in lost for slaughter
When two can't play for rite and haughter
and both their dreams are loved not solder'd
| Scheme | AAAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101110 111101110 11111101 01111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 160 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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