Analysis of The Alley Hustle
Prompt: A Second Piece of a Groundhog's Heart!
A Mother Groundhog's Story Part: 2
There was a scuffle, a tuffle, an alley Shuffle,
Right there in the streets!
My name is Russell, I squibble and hustle,
I'm a squirrel in the trees!
I saw it go down, right in town, with coons around,
A mother groundhog flees!
Right on site, at night, a mama does fight,
A baby bleeds!
With feet of white, left to right,
Two babies left to plead!
Mama wins, grabs the twins, she defends,
And runs free!
A baby she lost, a sad criss-cross,
She has to let it be!
She got away, to this day,
A sad mama sees!
A.D. Small
May 20, 2023
| Scheme | A A BXBCXCDXDXXEXEFC XF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (25%) |
| Metre | 101011011 0101101 110100111010 11001 1111011010 1010001 111111011101 01011 1111101011 0101 1111111 110111 101101101 011 010110111 111111 1101111 01101 11 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 613 |
| Words | 140 |
| Sentences | 12 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 16, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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