Analysis of like electric penguins
In the morning.
Bells ring.
Houses vomit people out onto the street.
Cuckoo-clock birds with broken springs.
They shake themselves down and stand on moving platforms
Like electric penguins.
Later they return and are sucked back indoors.
Scheme | AAXXXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0010 11 10101011001 1111101 11011011101 101010 1010101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 230 |
Words | 37 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 7 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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