Analysis of Working Your Ass Off
Almost seventy,
What is called working
Your ass off, is when
You're on the throne you,
Stain the porcelain.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Tanka (40%) Cinquain (40%) |
| Metre | 1100 11110 11111 11011 10100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 107 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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A sixty-seven year old man with prostate cancer.
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