Analysis of The Rock
The man who lost his money
got a horrible nasty shock
When the world called him homeless
and his government a rock
Scheme | ABCB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Ballad stanza Quatrain Simple 4-line |
Metre | 0111110 10100101 1011110 0110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 111 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
Home sweet what?
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Written on October 11, 2021
Submitted by Poetbird on October 11, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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