Analysis of Trenchcoat Mafia



Find the freeway
Load the film
aim the satellite
light the gloom
the house is dark
but the family is home
knock on the door
get a quote
spray your hair
get it on the air
edit it in the truck
make it ready for the 11 o’clock


Scheme ABCDEFGHIIJE
Poetic Form
Metre 101 101 1010 101 0111 1010011 1101 101 111 11101 101001 1110101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 214
Words 48
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 175
Words per stanza (avg) 48
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Submitted by dtyler321 on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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