Analysis of Street Poetry
Take the words out of the books
Strip them from the page
Free them like a kite
Post them in the sky
Like starlight
Set the verses free
Let them roam on plains
Paste them on billboards
Carve them on walls
Spray them on railway carriages
Project the stanzas onto clouds
Write the lines on lines
Couple couplets onto grand prix cars
Wreathe the smoke in spoken
Words
| Scheme | XXAXA XXXXX XXXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
| Metre | 1011101 11101 11101 11001 11 10101 11111 1111 1111 1111100 10010101 10111 10110111 101010 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 349 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted by alanbthomas on February 11, 2020
Modified by alanbthomas on February 13, 2020
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