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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