Analysis of Guilty



Sure I'm as guilty as shit,
        I don't know what to say,
                seemed better that way,
So having committed a crime,
        now I'm doing my time.
                so what do you think of it?
I had good reason,
        to do what you call treason.


Scheme ABBCCADD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011 111111 11011 11001001 111011 1111111 11110 1111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 261
Words 50
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 152
Words per stanza (avg) 43

About this poem

speaks for it's self

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Written on February 13, 2023

Submitted by on February 13, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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