Analysis of Mao
Mao said, "power comes from the barrel of a gun",
Mao lied,
The only things that come from the barrel of a gun are:
pain, suffering, and death.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011010101 11 01011110101011 110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 143 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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