Analysis of That House Down The Road
There's a house down the road,
Boys and girls in and out.
Mom with a heavy load,
Sometimes I hear her shout
They do not go to school
Always playing hookey
By acting like a fool
And getting some nooky.
One had a can of beer.
They are all underage.
When Deputies got near,
It brought about some rage.
I don't know what to say
And the reason how come,
Those kids are put away
And they're looking for mom.
A small black dog was theirs
For a very long time
And now nobody cares
About it, it's a crime.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EXEX FXFX GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Etheree (25%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101101 101001 110101 011101 111111 1101 110101 01011 110111 111100 110011 110111 111111 001011 111101 011011 011111 101011 0111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 501 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Single mom with truant kids
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