Analysis of No Kiss On The Mouth
The hooker had saved a piece of herself,
a part kept new not old
As pure and pristine as a fresh running stream,
never bartered, never sold
The johns came and went, the money got spent,
each trick relined with pain
But in one sacred place, her past is erased
—where sun blocks out the rain
(The New Room: December, 2021)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101101 011111 11010101101 1010101 0110101011 11111 10110101101 111101 011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 329 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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