Analysis of Family Dinners
Brittany Wilson 1988 (Milwaukee, WI)
Family Dinners nowadays are so different from when I was a kid
I never called 1st dibs or took bids
On food that’s baked, fried or mixed up from cans & boxes
Otherwise I’d resemble a foolish fox
Do I look like a fox to you, sir?
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 100101011100111101 110111111 111111111110 1010100101 111101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 232 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 176 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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