Analysis of Childhood memory



The indian customs are the worst
Rich are made victims
When I was nine I do remember
We were going through customs in bombay,
That customs officer was corrupt!
He was gawking at our richess


Scheme ABCDEB
Poetic Form
Metre 010010101 11110 111111010 1010110001 110100101 11101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 189
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) 153
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on December 19, 2023

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