Analysis of Death of a Car



Miles are creeping up.
Air suspension sagging down.
She is getting tired.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 11101 1010101 111010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 73
Words 14
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Written on June 08, 2022

Submitted by joef.25903 on June 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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