Analysis of South Africa
A hot shower in the morning,
so hot my skin is red and itchy.
Then again at noon;
once again at night.
And still I am not clean
from the dirt of racism.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01100010 111111010 10111 10111 011111 101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 147 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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