Analysis of Tongue In Cheek



Preaching to the choir
one more like will do
Beating the last dying horse
postings stay as new
I’ll read yours if you’ll read mine
lined up in the queue
I’ll say yes if you agree
— who is kidding who

(The New Room: March, 2024)


Scheme XAXAXAXA X
Poetic Form
Metre 101010 11111 1001101 10111 1111111 11001 1111101 11101 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 236
Words 47
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on March 29, 2024

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