Analysis of What Is A Disgrace?
What is the meaning of happy?
Does it last a very long time?
What is the reason for smiling
And acting as though things are fine?
Who do we think we are fooling?
The tears leave a stain on the face.
What does it matter what people know?
Just tell me What is a disgrace?
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010110 11101011 11010110 01011111 11111110 01101101 111101101 11111001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 208 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on June 03, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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