Analysis of Gutted Ox
You got to study the masters,
how you know you’re not reinventing the past.
Then you come up with something new.
The old tricks of the trade, playfulness,
experiment, work, and discipline.
My talent and work ethic: a thorough job.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110010 11111001001 11111101 011101100 010010100 11001100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 232 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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