Analysis of Gotta do
Valiantstar 1961 (Sydney)
Got-a do
what-a got-a do
And a not-a do
what-a dont-a
Want-a to.
Judge if you want to.
Don't bother me.
I flyer by the seat of my pants.
Listen to fools rant and rave
Saving the world
One click at a time
When truth is choked
What a
Joke.
Don't
Fall now
Listening?
Heaven calling...
Can you hear the rumbling sounds..
Ask where it's coming from....
Above, or underground?
Like fools we think we know the foe.
But it's me not him.
Understand?
Look in the mirror
Now look good.
Close look
Cock.
(God confessed to Job: with your own right hand:)
Got-a do bet-a
Bet-a not do worse.
Worst-a bet-a got-a bet-a
Mumma sava me from this curse.
If all of our works are filthy rags
New clothes must we put on.
Then all we do is wash our feet.
Dirt and dust all gone.
Dressed for the party
It will be a double treat
Marriage to His virgin
Slaughter of the beast.
I did what-a should-a done that-a good for me.
Doin what-a had to do set-a me free!
Free to enter the cities gates
Country side to roam
Where all the got-a bet-a
Found-a there-a way-a home.
Scheme | AAABA AC X XXXXBXXXDD XXX XXEXXXX E BFBF XXGX CGXX CC XHBH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 10101 00101 1010 101 11111 1101 110101111 1011101 1001 11101 1111 10 1 1 11 100 1010 11101001 111101 01110 11111101 11111 01 10010 111 11 1 1011111111 10110 10111 10101010 10101111 1111011101 111111 111111101 10111 11010 1110101 101110 10101 111010110111 1101111011 11100101 10111 1101010 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,068 |
Words | 247 |
Sentences | 24 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 2, 1, 10, 3, 7, 1, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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