Analysis of Mistress
Mistress,
a married man's lover,
despite the fact that he's with another
loves him regardless
By day, he plays happy families
with the wife and kids
by night, he performs his routine normally
tells her he's going out with his buddies,
takes a shower, gets dressed,
then goes across town to the mistress
When the wife's not doing her duties,
playing her part,
she gladly steps in as an extra
to mend his broken heart
when the missus isn't giving love,
she'll gladly take her place in bed
always there for him,
when push comes to shove
Promises he loves her,
that someday he'll leave his wife
so they can be together
filling her head with lies,
empty promises he can't keep,
so with her, he can always creep
to him, his wife's number one
on his list of priorites and to-do's,
she'll always be number two
Scheme | ABBA CXXCXA CDXDEXXE BXBXFFXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10 010110 0101111010 11010 111110100 10101 11101101100 1011011110 101011 110111010 101110010 1001 110101110 111101 101010101 11010101 1111 11111 100110 111111 1111010 100111 10100111 1101111 1111101 11111011 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 775 |
Words | 147 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 8, 9 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on August 25, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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