Analysis of An Honest Creature



Greeks showed the world a feature
Which could be someone’s slogan, -
It is an honest creature
And pretty central organ!

Yet, wonder of creation  
And, probably, a treasure
It gives an inspiration  
And also a source of pleasure!

It could awake the artist,
It could present a vulture,
It is among the smartest
Envoys of classic culture!

Somebody finds this picture
Improper for a lecture
But this straightforward creature
Is my reward from nature!

It is a candid worker
With some eternal duty,
It’s the torrential poker
Which recognizes beauty!

It is a smooth adventure
In the warm and sacred harbor
And when I drop its cover
It’s some attention’s catcher!


Scheme ABAB BABA CACA AAAA ADAD AAAA
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 1101010 111110 1111010 0101010 1101010 0100010 111010 01001110 1101010 1110010 1101010 1011010 101110 0101010 1111010 1101110 1101010 1101010 1001010 110010 1101010 00101010 0111110 1101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 650
Words 112
Sentences 6
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 87
Words per stanza (avg) 19

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Written on 2001

Submitted by leorozum on November 05, 2021

Modified by leorozum on November 07, 2021

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Leonid Rozumenko

Someone in your domain asks me to send a letter about myself. My pleasure - favorite topic. Who am I? Can’t keep a secret - athletic, open-minded, and generous, with a wide scope, love for women, good company. With love for science and to write something everlasting, which isn’t computer programming anymore. I was born in gorgeous Kyiv (Ukraine) more than 35 years ago, lived in the USA for longer than 4 years and my language is still in progress. My poetry is also a colorful picture of the unseeing battle between “yours truly” and English grammar. My Ukrainian or Russian accent has two unreliable reasons – it’s “for fun” and “hard to get rid of”. The meaning of my last name “Rozumenko” in Ukrainian is very close to “jaba-jaba a dada” in “Crocodile Dundee II”. I have several other weaknesses but I introduce them only to my closest friends. Yours truly, Leo Rozumenko more…

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