Analysis of For Instance (excerpt)
Shane Koyczan 1976 (Yellowknife, Northwest Territories)
Take for instance you, take for instance me.
Take for instance the word instantly,
and how it used to be used to describe things like coffee, or mashed potatoes.
But now somehow they use it to describe how you died, instantly.
| Scheme | AABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Mâni Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 1110111101 111001100 0111111101111011010 111111101111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 223 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 45 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 179 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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