Analysis of Compelation
I dreamt I killed Shel Silverstein.
I just looked him in his dead eye and said,
"No, -this- is where the sidewalk ends."
His seductions and subterfuge had fooled me
into a misguided love.
That's what I think about, his raspberry fantasy,
as I sit in a 7-eleven with a gun in my mouth.
They say I'm just a crazy ol' man.
Maybe I am. But at my age, who cares?
| Scheme | ABCDEDFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 1111110 1111011101 1111011 11010111 0100101 111101110100 11100010101011 111101011 1011111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 349 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 267 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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