Analysis of Pain

William Williams 1972 (Wisconsin)



Physical pain is just another lap around the track.
Mental pain can get real whack.
 Emotions just get in the way.
They try to confuse you and lead you astray.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 10011101010101 1011111 01011001 11101101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 160
Words 33
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Written on 2005

Submitted by 19stayreal72 on February 24, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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