Analysis of Watch Out!



My mom was a hard head.
She voted for Barry Goldwater.
Bomb Hanoi.
What she didn’t realize is that not every country can be a leader of freedom.


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 11011010 110 111101111001011010110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 146
Words 31
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on October 17, 2023

Submitted by raetally on October 17, 2023

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