Analysis of Crack

Levi Spotts 2011 (chicago)



There is a crack in the wall
so I named it Jack
and gave it a whack till it turned into a yak
Who could quack
that is what happens when you whack a crack


Scheme ABBBB
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Lanturne  (20%)
Metre 1101001 11111 011011110101 111 1111011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 154
Words 36
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 119
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Written on December 21, 2022

Submitted by 754409 on December 21, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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