Analysis of Gouge Away
Chained to the pillars
I break the walls, kill us all
with holy fingers
| Scheme | ABA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 11010 1101111 11010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 71 |
| Words | 14 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Haiku version of Pixies verse
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