Analysis of Eighteen



Take it like a man
Keep your evil in hand
Cold, cruel, selfish world
Not a blur
Art for art sake
I like that
Winter time I wear a hat
And Babe Ruth swung a bat


Scheme ABCDEFFF
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 111001 110101 101 1111 111 1011101 011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 159
Words 36
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 122
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Written on May 09, 2022

Submitted on May 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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