Analysis of Gene Pool



Take your legs, for instance
Reaching a leangth made resistant to gravity,
So that your mother would send you to
swimming lessons.

Remember her legs, back in the day
Fluttering child in your Grandmother's pool,
In order to grow into something worth
rewarding.

And if the reward is simply being born
Believe the compliment received from a
Stranger: "You must take after your Mother
with such brilliantly long legs."


Scheme XXXX XXXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 100110101100 111101111 1010 010011001 100101101 0101101101 010 01001110101 0101000110 1011110110 1110011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 403
Words 70
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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