Analysis of Of the penultimate
Mark Cloutier 1972 (Kaneohe)
Left to my own devices
A devious domain remains
Schemes of eternity
Methods to the madness
To it all
Leave everyone with a loss
A loss of speech
And a impediment
Of foot in mouth
And a kick in the ass
With teething and seething
Rabid foaming
Once bitten by ratts
The darkness
Covers the light inside
In me it reigns a supreme song
And a first ruler
Who led all astray
He was struck down
And he can't escape the wrath
Of the penultimate
And the look of majestic states
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKKLDMNOPQRST |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010 01000101 110100 101010 111 110101 0111 000100 1101 001001 110010 1010 11011 010 100101 01110011 00110 11101 1111 0110101 100100 00110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 446 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Written on May 18, 2015
Submitted by Markcloutier on October 02, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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