Analysis of The Cost of Failure
I try my best to do a thing,
and when I fail to reach my target by a little bit,
I am flogged like a mangey dog in the street,
by my love, so sweet?
Sometimes in life, we all fall a little short,
that does not mean the mission I abort,
to my goal, I slog along,
even though the treatment I receive is wrong.
Scheme | XXAA BBCC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11111101 01111111010101 1111011001 11111 01011110101 1111010101 1111101 10101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 355 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
Personal experience with my lady friend.
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