Analysis of The Nightmare of Love



Your eyes are like liver spots
Your lips, like herpes
Your ears are as hairy as a werewolf
Your nose just bleeds


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111101 11110 111110101 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 109
Words 22
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 90
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on June 12, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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David Ehrgott

There are two types of words in the english language. A: the written word and B: the spoken word. There once was a time that they mirrored each other. Unfortunately, the higher learning schools today concentrate on what makes them the most money. Which is: professional sports learning. Thus, destroying what once was a proper education. Since the spoken word will now never reflect the written word, we must change the written word to reflect the spoken word. Because people just don't talk like dat no mo'. more…

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