Analysis of On The Wall



The Life of a border guard
was always going to be hard.
With all the calls from the feds
he would have to up his meds,
for fear of hispanic attacks


Scheme AABBC
Poetic Form Cinquain  (40%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 0110101 1110111 1101101 1111111 11101001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 147
Words 33
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 115
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

My friends gives me a random topic and I have 10min to compose

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Written on March 28, 2022

Submitted by muzz on March 20, 2024

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