Analysis of Dirty Dishes
She promised herself that she will no longer live
content with the pain of loving you.
So, she guards her heart and thunders it over with steel wool
to scrub the grime
from your pot named
Soul.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110011111101 101011101 11101010110111 1101 1111 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 188 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on March 09, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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