Analysis of ONLY ROT, WHERE....the QUOTE?



Been to market
where your sack of wise
get wrote rot
wrote WROTE WROTE

Been to plate
where your dish of wise
get wrote rot
wrote WROTE WROTE

Been to brief
where your note of wise
get wrote rot
wrote WROTE WROTE

Been to coffin
where your glance of wise
get wrote rot
wrote WROTE WROTE

Been to ear
where your whiff of wise
get wrote rot
wrote WROTE WROTE

Been to gratitude
where your sound of wise
get wrote rot
wrote WROTE WROTE

bin to that gratitude
bin to that ear
bin to that coffin
bin to that brief
bin to that plate
bin to that market pounded what
pounds pounded
pound
pounded hats off;

What has any shelf to avoid
other than
the hastiness
that hindered its existence
near the time
that does not allow to shelf sliver of NONE
for fear it might
fall down

tidy the hands of the cleaner
that pop up
once upon time,

different from this and that time.


Scheme abCD ebCD fbCD gbCD hbCD ibCD ihgfeaxxx xxbxjxxx xxj j
Poetic Form Tetractys  (58%)
Metre 1110 11111 111 111 111 11111 111 111 111 11111 111 111 1110 11111 111 111 111 11111 111 111 1110 11111 111 111 11110 1111 11110 1111 1111 11110101 110 1 1011 11101101 101 01 1101010 101 11101111011 1111 11 10011010 111 1011 10011011
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 862
Words 179
Sentences 1
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 9, 8, 3, 1
Lines Amount 45
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 68
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by yukunno.ghirmay on December 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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