Analysis of Why?
Gamaliel Bradford 1863 (Boston, Massachusetts) – 1932
Hist! Zop!
The world is all awry.
Think that you can mend it?
Take a turn and try.
Virtue gets a fall or two,
Vice careers on high.
I had rather sing myself,
Sick of asking why.
| Scheme | ABCBDBEB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 011101 111111 10101 1010111 10111 111011 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 178 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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