Analysis of Pick Your Poison
Booze—Broads—The Bible,
which poison will you claim
The one that numbs, the one that thrills
—the one your soul to shame
‘Captain Tony’s, Key West: June, 1971’
| Scheme | XA XA X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11010 110111 01110111 011111 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 172 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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