Analysis of 1920's Flicker
John Dillinger and Baby-Faced Nelson
in a dream together
- one shooting holes thru
theories of his untimely death,
the other frying in an old-time
(e) Electric Chair
with balloons waving, bonbons
going off, the crowd in a joyous,
boisterous mood.
The marquee reads:
"Public Enemy Number One
laid to rest in a
shallow grave as
gravelly as the heart
that beat in his stoney chest."
An adjacent sign noted,
crime does pay the undertaker
but other, good-hearted folks
need look no further than
the Dempsey-Tunney fight
to see which has the
bigger box office draw.
Scheme | ABXXXXCCX CADCXX XBCXXDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100010110 001010 11011 10110101 010100111 10101 101101 101010010 1001 0011 10100101 11100 1011 100101 1101101 1010110 1110100 1101101 111101 010101 11110 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 6, 7 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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