Analysis of A Poor Man Sings
Alfred Lichtenstein 1889 – 1914
Those were fine times, when I still
Walked in silk socks and wore underpants,
Sometimes had ten marks to spare, in order
To hire a woman, bored in the day
Night after night I sat in the coffeehouse.
Often I was so sated that I
Did not know what to order for myself.
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011111 10110110 0111111010 1100101001 1101110010 101111011 111111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 259 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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