Analysis of If Only Women Were...
If only women were not so admirable
then I would not find them so desirable
and I'd not be tempted to go astray
whenever a pretty woman passed my way.
If only women were not so beautiful
then I'd behave and not be undutiful.
Life would not be hard and difficult
and there'd be far less trouble and tumult.
If only women were not so attractive
and my testosterone was far less active
then when the butterflies came out to play
I would walk on and look the other way
If only women were not so darn pretty
then I'd live a life of devotion and fidelity
and stay upon that straight and narrow path
behaving myself and not acting so daft.
... But then life would be so BORING and not much fun
Scheme | AABB AACC DDBB EEXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100111000 11111110100 0111101101 01001010111 11010011100 11010111 111110100 0111110010 11010011010 011011110 110101111 1111010101 11010011110 11101101000100 0101110101 0101011011 111111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 670 |
Words | 133 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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