Analysis of To Do As They Always Do (Bussokusekika)
Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)
To Do As They Always Do (Bussokusekika)
Creatures of habit
Can be so predictable
For those who stalk them
They just have to lie in wait
For their unsuspecting prey
To do as they always do
Edwin Tanguma Aka Dagesh 12/26/2023
| Scheme | X XXXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 10110 1110100 11111 1111101 110101 111111 10010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 233 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
Keywords…Quiet,still,peaceful,gentle,Our Lady of Mercy,strong and brave…a female personification of the United States…Might you be a model by trade???New World Order ewes sez???Surely Yeez jest…Who dooz ewes thunk am I???Seeing that he before me took I am I gez that left me as am I…
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