Analysis of Goddamn Fool
Joe Strickland 1986 (Hobbysville, SC)
Stuck in stubborn ways,
Never changing our hopeful hearts.
Fools we may be called.
They'll all call us that.
But love never fades away.
It's like a deity we worship.
I'm a goddamn fool.
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 101010101 11111 11111 1110101 110100110 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 185 |
| Words | 40 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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