Analysis of Common Tater
Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)
You can stick a fork in me
Baby I’m done
I can’t take all the lies
Here under the sun
I’d rather be taking a fall
In the night
I’d rather go out for a walk
Without light
The women of the earth
Are skilled at deceiving
But I still wish I had one
That I could believe in
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1110101 1011 111101 11001 11011001 001 11011101 011 010101 111010 1111111 111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 278 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Written on October 08, 2021
Submitted by dawg4jesus on May 15, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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