Analysis of Split couplet – Relax and play



To fume and rumble in endless haste
It is a waste
To not embellish the journey in time
It is a crime.
Robbing one’s self of patience’s subtly joy,
You can’t enjoy
The sweet things in life - full of gaping grief
For you were brief.
So tomorrow to have a happy day,
Relax and play.

Copyright © 2009 Leslie Alexis


Scheme AABBCCDDEE X
Poetic Form
Metre 110100101 1101 1101001001 1101 1011111001 1101 0110111101 1101 101110101 0101 1010010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 324
Words 63
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 1
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 120
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 2023

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