Analysis of Seven Sins,



I'm not exactly the typical user,
Nor am I as clean as a whistle,
I'm not a morbid abuser,
Nor as rough as a thistle.

I'm a typical swine,
Yet I'm as elegant as a swan,
I like to think I'm rather fine,
But I can't keep this lazy for long.

I'm each of every sin,
I don't take pride in that fact,
I hide my shame behind my large satisfied grin,
As I try to conceal the pact.

I must admit I do thrive for passion,
I take love for granted,
And lust is my greatest fashion;
And this, I do find rather enchanted!

I'm a pig; I'm a boar,
I must have the largest feast,
I don't need little; I need more and more,
And this gluttony is making me a beast.

I'm as lazy as the typical sloth,
I'm laying there pretending to be royal,
Not needing much but the single cloth;
To cover me up, and never really thanking people enough for been so loyal.

Though I do confess,
I brew and I boil;
And all of this unneeded stress,
Sets my mind to true wrath and toil.

Though the last sin I have; ain't so bad,
I take pride in myself, and in the things that I do,
Some people think it's rather sad;
Perhaps a bit conceited, but that's all that I ever knew.


Scheme ABAB CXCX DEDE FXFX GHGH XBXB IJIJ KLKL
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 11010010010 111111010 11010010 1111010 101001 111100101 11111101 111111011 1111001 1111011 11110111101 11110101 1101111110 111110 01111010 0111110010 101101 1110101 1111011101 01100110101 1110101001 11010101110 110110101 110110101010100111110 11101 11011 01110101 11111101 101111111 111010001111 11011101 010101011111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,099
Words 230
Sentences 8
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 32
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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