Analysis of Accountability Today
Tommy L. Maddox 1972 (North Carolina)
Jingle bells,
Criminals in jail.
Gonna make them pay.
For there crimes,
they'll do their time.
Accountability today.
HEY!
| Scheme | ABCDECC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 10001 10111 111 1111 01000001 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 121 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
I heard a sheriff in Florida say the first two lines from his own mind and it opened up in mine. We more like him.
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