Analysis of Obstacles
Leonid Rozumenko 1961 (Kyiv)
Your haircut could tell
How glasses messed with a barber.
And you don’t need a spell
To have the extra number:
The good composer knows
His true opponent faces, -
It’s not the boos or wows,
But taste and fashion braces.
It’s what you have in hand, -
Your time, your tools, musicians,
The courage of your brand,
Your own superstitions!
And it’s an extra view
For use of English grammar, -
It hurts the soul in you
And treats you like a stammer.
Psychiatry is jam
Which steals from people wealth,
And force of driving them
To cry about themselves!
| Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE FBFB XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 1111 11011010 011101 1101010 010101 1101010 110111 1101010 111101 1111010 010111 11010 011101 1111010 110101 0111010 010011 111101 011101 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 536 |
| Words | 101 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Written on 2001
Submitted by leorozum on November 05, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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