Analysis of The Crew's Last Will and Testament



Dear Betty,
People come and people go.
But the love you've shown
Will always hold.
You treat your crew with such respect
When there were times you could have
Rung our necks.
You're more than what a boss should be.
You have that special dignity.
Your laughs, your cries,
And now goodbyes.
We'll miss you, Betty.
That's no lie.
From your one and only mixed up crew,
But that's OK 'cause you knew it too.


Scheme ABCDEFGAAHHAIJJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (47%)
Metre 110 1010101 10111 111 11111101 1101111 1101 11110111 11110100 1111 011 11110 111 111010111 111111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 387
Words 75
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 15
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 307
Words per stanza (avg) 75
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Submitted on October 19, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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