Analysis of "Refrigerator"



Don't you just hate it when a writer
cannot figure out what to say
that fits in their new poem,
and they'll write something like
"Refrigerator"
for the needed
syllables
in a
row?


Scheme ABCDAEFGH
Poetic Form Nonet
Metre 111111010 10101111 1101110 011101 0100 1010 100 00 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 179
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 140
Words per stanza (avg) 33

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Written on April 20, 2022

Submitted by Liam_MCX on May 10, 2022

Modified on April 25, 2023

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