Analysis of THE DECADES



  I am Farrah Fawcett poster on
The wall.
   I am rotary phone when I made
A call.

I am, Boss, it’s the plane,
The plane.
   I am Pablo Escobar and his
Cocaine.

I am Queen with Freddy Mercury
Live.
   I am the Bee Gees talking that
Jive.

I am we have the technology to
Make him better.
   I am Charles Manson as  
Helter-Skelter.

I am vinyl, 8-tracks, cassettes
And CD's.
   I am keep on trucking and
Hippies.

I am where is the beef? And
Don't squeeze the Charmin.
   I am Cheech and Chong and
George Carlin.

I am SNL when it was
Funny.
   I am Hugh Hefner and his
Playboy bunny.

I am MTV when they played
Music videos.
   I am Baretta, Dirty Harry and
Al Pacino.

I am American-Bandstand, free love
And the twist.
   I am pay phones, pagers and
Stick-shifts.

I am conjunction junction what's
Your function.
   I am Patty Hearst and her
Abduction.

I am Star Wars, jaws and
Rocky.
   I am Welcome Back Kotter and
Sweat-hog cocky.

I am gas station lines and
Roller skates.
   I am Stonewall, Women's lib
And Watergate.

I am stretch-Armstrong, Lite-Brite
And pong.
   I am Barry Manilow in I write the
Songs.

I am M.A.S.H. and a metal
Lunch-box.
   I am clackers, tang and a
Pet-rock.


Scheme ABCB DDED FGXG XHXH XEIX IAIX XFEF CXIX XXIX XJHJ IFIF IXXX XXKX XXKX
Poetic Form Quatrain  (50%)
Metre 111010101 01 111001111 01 111101 01 11101001 01 111110100 1 11011101 1 1111001001 1110 111101 1010 1110101 01 1111100 10 1111010 1101 111010 110 111111 10 1111001 110 111111 10100 11110100 1010 110100111 001 1111100 11 11010101 110 1110100 010 111110 10 11101100 1110 1111010 101 111101 010 111111 01 11101000110 1 1110010 11 111100 11
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,312
Words 290
Sentences 34
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 56
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 62
Words per stanza (avg) 15

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CURRENT AFFAIRS WHEN I WAS GROWING UP

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Written on January 01, 2023

Submitted by Turbo1904 on January 05, 2023

Modified on April 26, 2023

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