Analysis of Once Upon A Time In The West
I don't smoke.
It still smells like smoke
In my pickup truck.
Deadbeat dad, uh huh.
It's going to be rough
Maybe I'll stop and work
A little while in Ohio.
They're going to kick my butt.
Well,
I feel
Nothing.
God is definitely female.
Okay,
Hello, kids, it's dad, here, (don't let them
Get too hard on themselves, right away, because
They haven't seen me).
I'm leaving here, Seattle.
I hope I don't hit another, suicidal
Damned deer
In Montana. You can't
Do anything, around midnight, the poor
Creature turning with dilated pupils, can't shoot
Can't even do anything with a hammer.
Even if you stopped, you cannot step
Without causing even more sorrow and danger.
Calculus,
Continuous and discreet variables.
Them's the breaks.
There's just too many of us.
It's almost Christmas,
And, I have to admit, the ex
Wife looks interesting to me, more.
She blinked.
I had the moment I expected,
And then I was gone.
Same old story.
Scheme | AAX X XXX X XXX X XXXB C CXXXXD XD EX XE EXX XXX B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11111 0111 1111 110111 101101 01010010 1101111 1 11 10 1110001 1 011111111 11110110101 11011 1101010 11111010010 11 001011 11001101 101010101011 1101101010 101111101 011010110010 100 01000011000 101 1111011 1110 01110101 11100111 11 110101010 01111 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 952 |
Words | 203 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 4, 1, 6, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Written on November 24, 2020
Submitted by race.newport.way on November 28, 2022
Modified on March 23, 2023
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