Analysis of Cannabis Cool
The night was red as from my bed
I tumbled to the sky.
The breeze was blue as I heard you
Around the garden fly.
The day was black as I stepped back
And felt a gum tree grow.
The rain dripped dry as only I
Would see a rooster crow.
I found my hat and stroked my cat
And led my sows to market.
I saw you say my snout was grey
So steered my car to park it.
I had to flee to Southend Sea
To drop off in the sands.
I went to view the voice of you,
I walked there on my hands.
I robbed a song of two words long
But coughed ~ it didn't rhyme.
Blame begged my heart to stop and start
For beating out of date.
You sailed about the room to shout
And say less, all the more.
From then you came to scream your name,
You entered by the fire.
So as the day was turned to clay
I scrambled through the wall.
I dug a hill for Jack and Jill
And watched them upwards fall.
From deep within a box of gin
I spent an inch or so
I chanced a bite and thought I might
Smoke whiskey through a straw.
And as the time was now sublime
The postman called and bowed.
I washed my words and watched small birds
Pitch snowballs at a cloud.
So back in bed to nest my head
In time to bake a cake.
I fell onto a dullness new,
There slumbered sound awake.
Scheme | ABCBXDBD XXEXXFCF XGXXXXXX EHXHXDXX GIXIAJCJ |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 01111111 110101 01111111 010101 01111111 010111 01111101 110101 11110111 0111110 11111111 1111111 1111111 111001 11110111 111111 11011111 111101 11111101 110111 11010111 011101 11111111 1101010 11011111 110101 11011101 011101 11010111 111111 11010111 110101 01011101 010101 11110111 11101 11011111 011101 11100101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,179 |
Words | 261 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
About this poem
'Cannabis Cool' was writ in 1978. It is a nonsense poem, of course, but should, I think, be fun to read. Even though it is entirely nonsense it owns a strict rhyming scheme (almost) throughout. Have fun with this.
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Submitted by AlanSJeeves on June 21, 2021
Modified by AlanSJeeves on June 21, 2021
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