Analysis of Life Is Not A Joke
Brittany Wilson 1988 (Milwaukee, WI)
My last penny is gone
I’m broker than broke
I feel so alone
Life is not a joke.
I’m hungry
I’m cold
I'm angry
But I'm Bold.
My energy got sucked through a drain
My brain is fried
I cried after I missed the last train.
If I had the chance to say “screw this crap, I’m done”, I would be labeled as being selfish. If you were in my shoes, then you would know that Life Is Not A Joke!
| Scheme | XAXA BCBC DXD A |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011 11011 11101 11101 110 11 110 111 110011101 1111 111011011 11101111111111110110101100111111111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 395 |
| Words | 87 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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