Analysis of THE TRAFFIC (Poem #135)
Cars, trucks, busses, trailers and such
all heading down the highway.
Why does so much traffic always have
to be going my way?
Highways, bridges, tunnels and turnoffs
which way should I go?
Sometimes I'm lost, getting exhausted
or the traffic just goes so slow.
Tuning and twisting, a better route
I'm always looking to find.
But maybe an airplane is the only
way to keep from being behind.
(c) Copyright by Jean E. Gorney
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCDC D |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101001 110101 11111011 111011 1101001 11111 011110010 10101111 100100101 111011 110111010 11111001 11011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 417 |
| Words | 75 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on August 11, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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