Analysis of Hells Angels

Andy Lyle 1951 (Londonderry)



Don't stop for breath between the lines
Keep reading on ,now that's just fine
Don't stop now you have got the flow
Keep reading we have far to go
First let me tell you about me
It started off when I was wee
And Mum to me a rhyme would tell
About a man's wife taken to hell
By the Devil himself up on his back
In Ireland that's the usual craic
He told the man how life was well
Until he took his wife to Hell
How things all changed , not for the better
As the man's wife was a real go getter
She had him painting walls all white
And burning smelly candles at night
In Hell it did not go down well
And the Devil he could not stand the smell
Of Patchouli oil and aniseed balls
And of course white and pink painted walls
He took the woman back up to earth
And returned to Hell to blacken his hearth
That had been painted a silver hue
Which of course in Hell it just won't do
The walls were all returned to black
That woman said the Devil is not coming back
And there you have it that is why

All Ladies become angels in the sky


Scheme XXAABBCCDDCCEEFFCCGGXXHHDDI I
Poetic Form
Metre 11110101 11011111 11111101 11011111 11111011 11011111 01110111 010111011 1010011111 0100101001 11011111 01111111 111111010 1011101110 11110111 010101011 01111111 0010111101 1110101 011101101 110101111 0011111011 111100101 111011111 01010111 110101011101 01111111 1100110001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 995
Words 211
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 27, 1
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 401
Words per stanza (avg) 106
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Submitted by andylyle1 on October 07, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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