Analysis of Ruin Someone
Would not stop
total focus playing
over stillman
he knew macgoven
own intolerable on person
get it straightened
treated like a retard
stillman knows famous line
screaming I do not care about
anything psychotic
| Scheme | XXAA A X X XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (50%) |
| Metre | 111 101010 1010 111 101000110 1110 101001 101101 10111101 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 200 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 1, 1, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 35 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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Submitted on September 03, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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