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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