Analysis of Jazz
Is it too much to ask that we
just lay around with our
cigarettes and coffee and jazz
and just enjoy each other?
Why do we strive for perfection—
when it would only neglect
the intricacies of this gritty,
raw, vulgar existence?
| Scheme | ABXB XXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11111111 1101110 0101001 0101110 11111010 1111001 010001110 110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 230 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on 2020
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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