Analysis of Wit and Wisdom
David Plantinga 1972 (Sherbrooke)
The Wit is nimble, and can skip
The longest distances with ease.
It flits on an extended trip,
One day, and back from overseas.
The Wisdom hasn’t cleared the dock,
A wide, and long, and sluggish ship,
Her cargo a tremendous stock,
And filled as if by faucet drip.
But such a huge displacement packs,
What takes a flimsy, skimming skiff
More than a hundred there’s and back’s,
A bounty to save Tenerife.
Scheme | ABABCACADEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110011 01010011 11110101 11011101 0101101 01010101 0100101 01111101 11010101 11010101 11010101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 423 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 312 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 73 |
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Submitted by DavidPlantinga on December 06, 2021
Modified by DavidPlantinga on January 03, 2022
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