Analysis of Driving to California
I'm not sure
What's in Fort Stockton
So I'm not sure
If I should go.
They say it's the first step
But Fort Stockton
Is a long way off
I would drive
For 6 hours
To strand myself
In expansive ugliness
Why does the first step
Always have to be
The worst?
Scheme | ABACDBEFGHIDJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 10110 1111 1111 111011 1110 10111 111 110 111 0010100 11011 1111 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 238 |
Words | 52 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on September 12, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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