Analysis of Legs of pearls

Odete Oliveira 1977 (USA)



Hair that locks into velvet curls
Slender hips that meet legs of pearls
Perfect teeth without a shot of an excuse
Permanent inner authority willpower
Expression of courage from bud to flower
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Scheme AABCC
Poetic Form Boy Named Sue 
Metre 11101101 10111111 01101011101 10010010010 01011011110 1
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 192
Words 32
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 159
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Written on December 01, 2023

Submitted by odete_o on December 01, 2023

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