Analysis of Gold Medals in Lonesome
Winning a second-place trophy
in a one-man race,
doing the tango alone,
screaming "fire" in a phone booth,
wearing a tie and tails
to the county jail
in the middle of yesterday,
after cruising on the wrong side of the sheriff's highway,
sitting at home by the phone
waiting, anticipating, walking the hall,
hoping for a "wrong-number" call,
just to hear someone say "Sorry, but I've dialed an incorrect line,"
Then, to hear myself, I say "Oh, that's fine!
I do it myself all the time and many times
at night on purpose."
Scheme | ABCDEFGGCHHIIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10010110 00111 1001001 10100011 100101 10101 0010110 1010101110101 1011101 1001001001 10101101 1111110111010011 111111111 11111010101 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 506 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 398 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on July 23, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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