Analysis of The Roaring Twenties



A promise to me that I needed, she said she would.
As St. Thomas threw these "He's dead" words, I know
not to be appeased this way. No anger could
be strongest to gleam red in me, which resolves, so,
I worry about nothing. Oh, stranger, don't dissolve slow
in me now. When did I become this? So now
you are involved; your ghost donning doubt. Why
do these frowns adorn your face when smiles
hide behind and underneath? I lace my trials
with kind and blunder-free; what is there to get
in a handshake with a glove on it? Its cold pleat?


Scheme ABABBCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 0101111101111 11101111111 11101111101 110111011011 11001101101011 01111101111 1101111011 111011111 10100111110 11010111111 00110111111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 525
Words 103
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 37
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 409
Words per stanza (avg) 103
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Submitted on January 23, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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