Analysis of Launching Pad
She bought her clothes at the discount chain,
No sugar Daddy, no gravy train.
A simple girl of ordinary means
She often ate wieners without any beans.
She imagined better and in her dreams
She ate elegant chocolates, only the creams.
She drank bubbly, expensive champagne
Soaring the world in her private plane.
She knew imagination was totally free
So late at night she would smile with glee
Picking piles of bills from the money tree.
She went on adventures wearing only her robe
With zebras and elephants she traveled the globe.
If anyone would ask her and discreetly probe
How she could afford the adventures she had
She would show them the library that was her launching pad.
Scheme | AABBCCAADDDEEEFF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110011 110101101 010111001 11011001101 1010100001 11100101001 111001001 100100101 11001011001 111111111 1011110101 111010101001 110010011001 11011000101 11101001011 1111010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 551 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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