Analysis of Monkeys
Trenton Woelfer and Johnson 2000 (Austin)
I truly hate monkeys,
less evolved versions of myself - monsters off a page.
Keep thy friends close, enemies closer;
so I keep them in a cage.
They remind my of things I cannot change.
| Scheme | ABCBD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 110110 101101110101 111110010 1111001 1011111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 184 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
About this poem
Monkey swing. Monkey no talk, monkey no have currency. Monkey happy - human sad.
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