Analysis of An Attempt to Explain Why We Killed the Earth
First, we began the intimacies by picking her flowers.
Then, we sat by her good windblown ear and started
With half-kisses. Fingering her resources,
We muttered, "It's great to be rich."
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101110010 11110111010 11101000100 11011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 183 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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