Analysis of ALPHABETTING
If you learn your ABC
You're set up to spell cab
And DEF will get you fed
Although that's rather drab
GHI will give you hig
But nothing much that's meant
And JKL will leave you with
A word you must invent
MNO will give you nom
Or mon if that's your thing
But PQR aren't wunderbar
For spelling anything
STU will give you sut
No meaning there at all
And WVX are consonants
So no words come to call
Y and Z are much the same
As anyone can see
And one might wonder why on earth
We learn our ABC.
Scheme | ABCB ADXD XAXA CEXE XXXA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Etheree (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111 111111 011111 11101 11111 110111 011111 011101 11111 111111 11101 11010 11111 110111 011100 111111 1011101 11011 01110111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 509 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
About this poem
It's a poem I wrote after it was pointed out to me that the alphabet would still work, no matter what order the letters were presented in. It's a bit of nonsense, but it makes me smile.
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Written on October 18, 2021
Submitted by rayeden on December 27, 2021
Modified on April 19, 2023
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