Analysis of Greeds



What do you have at your home?
Nothing, except some desires and greed
To sooth and comfort you.

Greed enters your home very silently
Finally it becomes your master
And you become slave of your own greed
Oneday it will drag you to an unknown grave.


Scheme XAX XXAX
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 1001101001 110101 1101110100 100101110 010111111 1111111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 255
Words 48
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 4
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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