Analysis of The Price Of Revenge
They sat around the bar,
saying: “I liked being married”
“Except for the part about
having my husband”
They sat around the bar,
as their eyes stalked the room
Sniffing for money
—the price of revenge
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2017)
Scheme | Ax xx Ax xx x |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 10111010 0110101 10110 110101 111101 10110 01101 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 249 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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