Analysis of Las Vegas Strip



The casinos are like coquettes,
very similar inside.
After flirtatious seduction commonalties abide.
The waitress in silly costumes
shows her flesh and hauls her drinks.
Cigarettes and disinfectant mixed together really stinks.
The freshly inducted novice
stares hopelessly at the slots.
On the gloomy side of forty money-changers lose their hots.
The subdued, serious players
double-up bets in blackjack.
Slugging beer and downing whisky they try to win assets back.
The sophisticated gambler
around craps yell at the dice.
Hawk-eyed dealers and pit-bosses watch for cheaters in their vice.
The casinos are inviting
on the great Las Vegas strip.
Beware of the empty promise of a wealthy junket trip.


Scheme ABBAAAAAAACCDAAEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 0010111 1010001 10010010101 01001001 1010101 01000101010101 01001010 1100101 101011101010111 00110010 101101 10101010111111 0010010 0111101 111001101110011 00101010 1011101 011010101010101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 683
Words 109
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 574
Words per stanza (avg) 109
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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