Analysis of The SUPREME COURT



Embodies a sense of holiness, we protect
As though disagreeing, anytime, is neglect

Thank God, President Bush didn't see it that way
And held our destroyers at Guantanamo Bay

Jack Richards
copyright 2006


Scheme AA BB XX
Poetic Form Couplet 
Metre 010011100101 11001010101 11101101111 01100101101 110 10
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 199
Words 33
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 6
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 55
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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