Analysis of Expectation
Marty Sullivan 1948 (Atherton)
Expectation is a curse
It keeps us wanting
It’s never now
Alway yet to come
I’ll take it anyway
I know when it’s gone
I will be too.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101 11110 1101 1111 11110 11111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 132 |
Words | 28 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 7 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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