Analysis of Dressed to kill



Reclining...wearing my shirt
swelling it
scalloped edge sexy around your thighs

i crook my finger
you strip it off
throw it through the air

caught....scented..i button up slowly..staring

the day can wait awhile


Scheme XXX XXX X X
Poetic Form
Metre 111 101 101100111 11110 1111 11101 11011 011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 203
Words 37
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 1, 1
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 42
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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