Analysis of Emotional Correctness
When I want to express anger,
I get madder than hell
When I want to give love,
how deep is my well
On those times that I covet,
how green I become
And when wrestling with hate,
the result zero-sum
When my face blushes red,
I wear it with pride
Excitement and fury,
then never to hide
These things at my core,
at your risk to defame
Like politics censored
—emotional correctness disclaimed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2019)
| Scheme | XA XA XB XB XC XC XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110110 111011 111111 11111 1111110 11101 011011 001101 111101 11111 010010 11011 11111 111101 11010 010001001 0100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 411 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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