Analysis of English, to simplify...



But they've spoke in ways of which we do not today.
In ways only the object admire.
In the way of the old,  learning  and yet decided,  which has succumbed to a much lesser language.   
Know ye not of terms of past;
Yet here I stand and say to admire them.
For whenst we came,  once pronounced  and forever revolutionized...
...the English language.


Scheme ABCDEFC
Poetic Form
Metre 111011111101 011001001 00110110011011011011010 1111111 1111011011 11111010010010 01010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 351
Words 69
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 263
Words per stanza (avg) 68

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This is possibly one of my best examples of an "I'm just going to write and see what comes out" kind of poem

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Written on July 28, 2018

Submitted by MiseryInc on December 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Christopher McKay

Read, travel, write, avidly watch Anthony Bourdain, and routinely enjoy face skin care. more…

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