Analysis of Writing a Smear
There was once a boy from Navy Pier
whose writing was always a smear
His teacher taught him
To write from the bottom
So he boarded a train to not near.
| Scheme | AABCA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 111011101 1101101 11011 111010 111001111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 193 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Written on December 21, 2022
Submitted by michaelp.46977 on December 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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