Analysis of Pay Attention
I go to work each day. I deal
with bombs all day.
Sometimes, I have to run fast away.
So if you see me running fast,
you better follow me before you
get hit by the blast.
| Scheme | ABBCDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 1111 011111101 11111101 110101011 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 165 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on February 05, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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