Analysis of Back Alleys
If some is good
more is better
Less is threatened
all enslaved
If more is reasoned
less is questioned
Good intentions
—hell repaved
(Dreamsleep: January, 2023)
| Scheme | AXBX BBXA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1110 1110 101 11110 1110 1010 11 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 165 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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