Analysis of Choose The Blues



To choose the "blues"
Is odd,by God
But
To choose to lose
You've blown a fuse


Scheme ABCAA
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 111 1 1111 1101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 73
Words 17
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 58
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted on January 13, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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