Analysis of A Day's Work
Gnawing clawing biting bitten
Pressing pushing smothered smitten
Smoggy foggy swirling lost
Grasping gasping inhales cost
Paying giving living out
Watching waving wading, drowned
| Scheme | AA XX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 10101010 10101010 1010101 101011 1010101 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 185 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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