Analysis of Gin (2018)
Bruises color your face
and the split lip he
gave you is enough
to warrant it,
but gin on ice
is never enough to cut
the sting of the morning,
after,
the pain on
the inside won’t just
go away with the cool rush of
juniper berries that
tastes like jet engine fuel.
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Metre | 101011 00111 11101 1101 1111 1100111 011010 10 011 00111 10110111 100101 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 267 |
Words | 58 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Written on 2018
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 05, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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