Analysis of Discipline ain’t right and wrong
Jeffrey Powell 1979 (Pittsburgh, PA)
Discipline ain’t right and wrong
or staying within reason
Sanity is heretofore
doing all that’s pleasin’
But hedonism is the art
that avoids all possible ache
Though fatalists know it best
alls is the logical take
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001101 1100110 100101 10111 1100101 10111001 1100111 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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