Analysis of The fun needs more than stillness



The fun needs more than stillness
And fact can’t make you vexed, -
Life is the lethal illness
Transmitted through the sex.

The common sense offenders
May praise their world of fiction,
But kinship between genders
Presumes some pleasant friction.

If one is a useless eater
And never brings delight, -
He works like a hairy heater
Which snores at the midnight!

It’s trite to call for begs
And chance is for alarms
If she spreads out legs
And he spreads out arms.


Scheme AXAX BCBC DEDE FGFG
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 0111110 011111 1101010 010101 0101010 1111110 110110 0111010 11101010 010101 11101010 11101 111111 011101 11111 01111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 452
Words 83
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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Written on 2001

Submitted by leorozum on November 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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