Analysis of Tennis for the Hungry
Two steps,three steps maybe four,
Jump do not ride!
Ride the slide! step!step to the poverty side.
Jump! Bump! Pump!those two hundred fifty dollar tennis,
One could have fed an entire village with those pennies.
| Scheme | ABBCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 111101 1111 1011101001 111110101010 11111010101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 207 |
| Words | 38 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 166 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on August 21, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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