Analysis of The Perfect Crime
Roger McGough 1937 (Litherland)
The sword-swallower
stabbed his unfaithful
wife to death
Before disposing
of the murder weapon
in one gulp.
| Scheme | XXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011 11010 111 01010 101010 011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 103 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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