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
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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