Analysis of A Poor Battered Man
Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)
A Poor Battered Man
#20
The other day I met a man
Who had been in a vicious fight
He told me he had been walking
Alone down an alley one night
When out jumped a group of gangsters
Who were just itching for a fight
He told them he had no money
You see he was not all that bright
They thought that he must be lying
Just by the way with which he dressed
So they began to pummel him
Within an inch of his last breath
And they found that he was truthful
Even unto the very end
He had two cents in his pocket
And not even one single friend
You see because of a woman
Heal come to the end of the line
Because that woman was his wife
Who did not know how to tell time
P.s.Now he’s only half the person
That he was before this happened
Edwin Tanguma 07/15/2002
Scheme | AXABCB XBXB CXXX XDXD EXXX EX X |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01101 1 01011101 11100101 11111110 01111011 11101110 10110101 11111110 11111111 11111110 11011111 11011101 01111111 01111110 10100101 11110110 01101101 11011010 11101101 01110111 11111111 11101010 11101110 10010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 764 |
Words | 168 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
Is it true grey is a color between black and white??? Why should it matter???Another one from the dark years…
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Written on July 15, 2002
Submitted by EdwinRayTanguma on December 01, 2023
Modified by EdwinRayTanguma on December 01, 2023
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