Analysis of Another Sad Sad Day



6:00AM Man struck with gunshot to the head.
                         He was rushed to the hospital,
                Where he was pronounced dead.

Carjacker drug a young mother a mile,
                          Only by nerves had she hung on;
                 Strapped in the backseat was her infant child.

12:00PM Breaking News:
                Seven year old girl walking home from school
                            Kidnapped, raped and dumped.
                 Body found floating in pool.

Millions starve from the war,
                              Half are children,
                 While the stock market continues to soar!

5:00PM  Baseball season started today.
                               Infant abandoned;
                 Social worker says she's okay.

11:00PM  Great day today to practice the golf game,
                                Man charged in brutal murder;
                 Pleaded insane.

Crime is up on the rise,
                                and for the 7 year old little girl,
                 No one came when they heard her cries.


Scheme AXA XXX XBXB CXC DXD XXX EXE
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101 1111010 111011 101011001 10111111 1000110101 11101 1011110111 1101 1011001 101101 1110 1011001011 1111101001 10010 1010111 111101110011 1101010 1001 111101 01011101 11111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,120
Words 156
Sentences 11
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 81
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Written on August 01, 1999

Submitted by todd_1 on May 06, 2022

Modified on April 26, 2023

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