Analysis of So It Goes
Richard Montfort Cary 1942 (Medford MA)
So It Goes
Modern, as ‘twere, poetry,
Dare I say, puzzles
Me, the way a line must
Loop, illogically, to
The next, or
Indent without cause
Or reason or
Illumination of a
Dim lit thought
Of time or place or
Want to
Help a reader hear or
Listener see
The pulse of love,
Except, perchance,
To simulate an ee
Cummings for the sake of
Appearing so, without the
Exquisite balance of
Language teetering on the tongue,
and, what means this?,
not a cap to start a line!?,
and then, the couplets, without
Rhyme or
flow with mellifluous meter
grace and
charm,
Perhaps.
Scheme | X AXXBCXCDXCBCAEXAEDEXXX XC XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 1011100 11110 101011 111 011 01011 1101 001010 111 11111 11 101011 1001 0111 0101 110011 101011 0101010 100101 10100101 0111 1011101 010101 11 11110 10 1 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 22, 2, 4 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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