Analysis of GOODNESS! short poem.




Why buffaloes are black and like lying in muddy water
Indicating that they are mad of the same mud and water
Why white milk flows out of this lazy mud loving animal
Saying that goodness is never spoiled by eve evil so near.


Scheme AABC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011001010 10011111011010 111111110110100 101101101111011
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 220
Words 43
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 180
Words per stanza (avg) 43
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Submitted on August 10, 2017

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