Analysis of The cripple and the winking man
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
A tilted women without trinket
Climbed the stairs on all fours
She unbraved as the plumber did wink
A cripple mained by the plumbers stink
As her collapsing toilet leaned toward the sink
It had shocked him with interest at the thought of there aged link
His eyes like seas on sandy shores
All she could but turn her head tide of her paler fingers
Baffled by his confident masculine purs
As she had prepared for her heart to be burnt
But he not the ache in her side to feel worse
Leaving he remembered her cry as she hobbled through the verse
I think my minds getting better but my legs getting worse
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Metre | 010100110 101111 11101011 010110101 100101010101 11111101011111 11111101 1111101110110 10111001001 11101101111 11101001111 101010011110101 11111010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 486 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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