Analysis of That’s How She Goes
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
The black widow spider loves her sins
She opens wide to let them in
That’s what the hour-glass is for
That’s how she charges; she’s a whore
I was trapped in a web of lies
But I broke free before I died
She went after foreign flesh
I wasn’t good enough I guess
But I’ll be getting up again
This time I’ll stay away from them
| Scheme | XX AA XX XX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 011010101 11011110 11010111 11110101 11100111 11110111 1110101 1110111 11110101 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 339 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 50 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Written on October 08, 2021
Submitted by dawg4jesus on May 15, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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