Analysis of Picfure

audria croom 1988 (texas)



I'll draw you a picture
I'll draw it with a twist
I'll draw it with a razor blade
I'll carve it on my wrist
And if I do just right
A red fountain will appear
To take away my pain
And to take away my fear


Scheme ABCBDEFE
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 111101 11110101 111111 011111 0110101 110111 0110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 197
Words 46
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 154
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Submitted on January 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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