Analysis of Ode to the Flu
Kennet Benoît-Hutchins 1952 (Snowdon, Montreal, QC)
I awaken to mucus muttering
A sinus echo of heartbeats
Sleep eludes the fatigue
Royale tasked agents fail
Spittle production increases
Drip echo drip echo drip
This war, ware, this war
Ban Ki-moon rescue me
For I need peace, rest
I am awake. Awake.
Kennet Benoît-Hutchins
November 2010
| Scheme | XXXXXXXXXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010110100 0101011 101001 011101 10010010 1101101 11111 111101 11111 110101 11011 010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 289 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Ahh, the malfeasance of influenza.
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