Analysis of I Think I . . .



If I left tomorrow
and went to that perfumed place
the one where they cut your hair
and I worked there
and made my hair red
fire engine red
not Irish beauty red
and if I wore those clothes and those
spangly things that insinuate
themselves into your flesh
those tight shrink-wrapped things
and if I put on pink lipstick and make-up
and if I got those long nails
the ones that sparkle
and are long and would
make my stubby hands wrap all the way
around the wheel . . .
I would feel like a woman


Scheme ABCCDDDEFGHIJKLMNO
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 0111011 0111111 0111 01111 10101 110101 01111101 1110100 010111 11111 0111111011 0111111 01110 01101 111011101 0101 1111010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 476
Words 95
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 391
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 16, 2023

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