Analysis of Pessimistic Express
E.S. Conway 1985 (United Kingdom)
Take a flight of fancy, to a past tale
where failures win and successors fail.
pessimistic express, all aboard please
we take you nowhere but still charge the fees
your journey is winding, twisting and long
like music with no melody or a tune with no song
as long as it takes and as hard as you try
in the end you've gone nowhere the worlds passed you by
so all aboard please the pessimistic express
to the future of regret, despair and excess
the land of the scared the home of the weak
we've arrived once again at pessimist peak
Scheme | AABB CCDD EEFF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011101011 110100101 010011011 111111101 1101101001 11011100101111 11111011111 00111101111 11011001001 10101010101 0110101101 10110111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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