Analysis of Snitch

Latin X 1967 (Philadelphia)



You talk too much. You should’ve kept your mouth shut. They’re on to you. They’re gonna trunk you. Looking over your shoulder, You’re not going to get much older.

Kiss your mother goodbye, They’ll be tears in her eyes. Now you’re on the run from your crew. Thinking, what should you do? You lived a life of crime. You don’t want to do the time.

So you went undercover, Took your best friends under. Living life on the run, got your hand on your gun.

Living life on the edge. After you pledged allegiance to your friends. You're on the run. Your life is coming undone.

Gunshot to the chest. You’ve been laid to rest.


Scheme X X A A X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11111111111111110111010110111011110 11101111001111011111011111101111111101 111010111110101101111111 101101101101011111011111001 110111111
Characters 639
Words 123
Sentences 18
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 94
Words per line (avg) 23
Letters per stanza (avg) 94
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Written on August 22, 2022

Submitted by LatinX on April 27, 2024

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