Analysis of Freeze-Frame Slices



To this we must allude: mental prowess fine and crude.
From this we must conclude:
perspicacious, keen and shrewd.

To this we must allude: moral decay rash and prude.
From this we must conclude:
hasty prudence, poise and mood.

To this we must allude: gorgeous model clad and nude.
From this we must conclude:
dazzling posture, pure and lewd.

To this we must allude: great excesses one and brood.
From this we must conclude:
extravagance, drink and food.

To this we must allude: trendy manner kind and rude.
From this we must conclude:
common nature, still and feud.


Scheme aAa aAa aAa aAa aAa
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011010101 111101 0010101 1111011001101 111101 1010101 1111011010101 111101 10010101 111101110101 111101 0100101 1111011010101 111101 1010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 551
Words 98
Sentences 11
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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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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