Analysis of Crabs



I have a bad case of crabs.
I eat cake by the slabs.
When I fart, my cheeks depart.
I shit myself so often that I can't keep tabs


Scheme AABA
Poetic Form Mâni 
Rubaiyat 
Metre 1101111 111101 1111101 11111011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 126
Words 29
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 96
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on January 07, 2021

Modified on March 14, 2023

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