Analysis of Cherry Bomb
"And everyone was drunk"
broken glass lining the floor
liquored bodies slung over furniture
words slosh and swirl around the room
loud and incisive.
swallow
down
the pain
and
flush it
down the
toilet
tomorrow
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011 1011001 110110100 11010101 10010 10 1 01 0 11 10 10 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 196 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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