Analysis of Your Family's True Colors



Your family's true colors are shades of "lustful" green.
Patrimonial review reveals a fickle scene.
Your father was licentious yet acted squeaky-clean.

Your family's true colors are shades of "greedy" black.
Matrilineal review reveals a crackerjack.
Your mother was predaceous but gave little back.

Your family's true colors are shades of "angry" red.
Hereditary review reveals e*** inbred.
Your brother was pernicious and lied in all he said.

Your family's true colors are shades of "morbid" gray.
Genealogical review reveals dark applique.
Your sister was struthious and hid her soul in clay.

Your family's true colors are shades of "craven" maize.
Consanguineous review reveals states of malaise.
Your children were traitorous by superficial glaze.

Your family's true colors are shades of "nippy" blue.
The historical review reveals portraits askew.
Your kinship was pugnacious in what they did accrue.


Scheme AAA BBB CCC DBD EEE FFF
Poetic Form
Metre 1100110111101 1001010101 1101010110101 1100110111101 0100101010 110101011101 1100110111101 010010111 1101010010111 1100110111101 110111 11011010101 1100110111101 11011101 110010010101 1100110111101 001001011001 111010011101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 888
Words 138
Sentences 18
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 121
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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