Analysis of LIFE OF CRIME
RICHARD DIMEGLIO 1945 (DUMONT)
Standing on the corner doing no harm
Along came a flat foot and took me by the arm
When around the corner rang a little bell
Along came a police car and took me to a cell
At five o'clock in the morning I look at the wall
The bed bugs and the roach were having a game of ball
The score was 20 to nothing the bed bugs were a head
Then their hit a homer that knock me out of bed
At six o'clock in the morning the jailer came around
Gave me bread and butter the weigh a half a pound
The coffee tasted like tobacco juice the bread was as hard as steel
This the way there treated me in the New Jersey jail.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101011 011011011101 10101010101 0110011011101 1101001011101 0110010100111 011110011001 111010111111 11010010010101 111010010101 0101010110111111 1011101001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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Written on July 02, 2022
Submitted by SSIMP409 on July 02, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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