Analysis of The Talk Of The Town



Here's the kid that took a shit in the urinel
they picked on him and threw his books down in the hallway
used to eat from the empty tray lunches
gave him rides home from school
kids told me I wasn't cool
yet who are they anyway
folks said he went off in the Army
many years would pass having every reason to grasp
where has he been
then I was a security guard
in a mentally insane facility
I heard his name over the loud speaker
now he was locked up for all eternity
the great Jimmy Foley
the talk of the town
a challenge to be free is a question of time


Scheme ABCAABDEFGDHDAIJ
Poetic Form
Metre 1011101001 111101111001 1111010110 111111 1111101 111110 111110010 10111101001011 1111 111001001 00100010100 1111100110 11111110100 011010 01101 010111101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 549
Words 116
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 445
Words per stanza (avg) 114
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Submitted by hitalot on September 12, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mario William Vitale

Mario William Vitale is a twentieth century poet. He has developed a style of free verse. Has written over one thousand poems. more…

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