Analysis of Society Says.....
Kenneth R. Jenkins 1961 (Augusta, GA)
I am not pretty
I am not fat,
I am not tall enough,
Too short,
To thin,
My hair's not long enough
My hair's too short
Not pretty.
Not looking my best
I am ugly!
Society says
I am
Too this
I am not that
Society says
So they say to me
So they say to you,
All these things and more.
8 Dec. 99
| Scheme | abcdxcdaxaExxbEaxx x |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110 1111 111101 11 11 111101 1111 110 11011 1110 01001 11 11 1111 01001 11111 11111 11101 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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