Analysis of A success story
Chris Pearson 1977 (Winnipeg)
A success story
The try that made it
The sperm to find the egg
The tale of every life
That was ever alive
For a little while
All the want
That meets the needs
Plunges deep into the meat
That bleeds and eats
Licks clean the taste of defeat
Feeding on the weak
The way things are
Supposed to be
Who can turn the other cheek
Any direction is just as bleak
The serrated glare of Hell's heat
Cuts to bone with Heaven's teeth
All this talk is cheap
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJIKLAKKIMN |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00110 01111 011101 0111001 111001 10101 101 1101 1010101 1101 1101101 10101 0111 0111 1110101 100101111 0101111 1111101 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 424 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 19 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 352 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on March 20, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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