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."
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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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