Analysis of Wall Street Blues
All the bag holders
Who get stuck at the top
Are waiting in vain
For their stock to pop
In theory
Everyone wants the gain
But in reality
Tax is an emotional pain
We are taught
to buy and hold
Steady and slow
Yet we never do
what we’re told
Out of FOMO
Mr. Market is anxious
But the trend is your friend
So use other people’s money
To line your own end
| Scheme | XABA CBCB XDXXDX XECE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10110 111101 11001 11111 010 10101 1010 11101001 111 1101 1001 11101 101 111 1010110 101111 11101010 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 360 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 69 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
the truth about Wall Street & financial markets... play with other people's money
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Written on November 11, 2011
Submitted by Michaelmatalon on November 15, 2022
Modified on March 18, 2023
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