Analysis of Adverse Side Effects



Death is to life an adverse side effect.
Flaw is to child an adverse birth defect.

Hate is to love an adverse side effect.
Base is to pride an adverse self respect.

Need is to lust an adverse side effect.
Foul is to pure an adverse sex object.

Frail is to health an adverse side effect.
Flab is to slim an adverse fit project.

Doubt is to faith an adverse side effect.
Fret is to hope an adverse trust reject.

Mean is to kind an adverse side effect.
Spurn is to care an adverse cold neglect.


Scheme AA AA AA AA AA AA
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 1111101101 1111101110 1111101101 1111101101 1111101101 1111101110 1111101101 1111101110 1111101101 1111101101 1111101101 1111101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 480
Words 96
Sentences 12
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 64
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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