Analysis of The Heavy Foot
A foot is never too mashed,
unless of course it's smashed.
Under the tire of something heavy,
my foot sits waiting to be healy.
Something more than nothing,
I lay awake thinking.
| Scheme | AA BB CC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 0111011 011111 1001011010 111101110 101110 110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 173 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on December 13, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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