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
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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