Analysis of Net Worth



What is the price tag you place on your soul?
When do you draw the line for self-parole?
Where are your values on the totem pole?
How does veneration alter your goal?
What do you stand for that you fully prize?
When would rather die than compromise?
Where is it important to improvise?
How many choices will you jeopardize?
What hot temptations seduce you to stray?
When is deep loyalty your only way?
Where do you settle and decide to stay?
How many commitments will you betray?
What sets you running to the arms of grace?
When can love feelings cause you to embrace?
Where do you orbit in dark outer space?
How many misfortunes should you erase?
What are the components of your "net worth?"
When are you pragmatically down-to-earth?
Where are your certificates of rebirth?
How do you reconcile bounty and dearth?


Scheme AAAABBBBCCCCDDDDEEEE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1101111111 1111011101 1111010101 110101011 1111111101 11101110 111010110 110101110 1101001111 1111001101 111100111 1100101101 1111010111 1111011101 1111001101 1100101101 1100101111 11101000111 1110100101 111101001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 795
Words 145
Sentences 20
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 646
Words per stanza (avg) 144
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Submitted on January 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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