Analysis of Civilty



Why they'd be running a Post Office
I'll never know
And why they need a hotel
I’d dare to go

For all the government’s business
is never meant to be
When all their money made
is taken from a fee

And saying that they're working
when just for you and me
When all they do for others
is take what money’s free

And put us into debt
for making problems key
When falling into circumstance
of mocking civilty


Scheme ABXB ACDC XCXC XCXD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 111100110 1101 0111001 1111 11010010 110111 111101 110101 0101110 111101 1111110 111101 011011 110101 1100110 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 390
Words 78
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 79
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted by Poetbird on April 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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