Analysis of Contest Out of a Hat?
Doug Blair 1951 (London)
I believe, suspect
That for sake of volume
Tedium and expedience
Contest judges, admins
And visitors, contestants.
Choose say, at random
Two dozen pieces
For closer study
Or maybe the label Rhymed
And divide by four
The entries.
Or Sonnet.
Or by alphabet in poets’ name.
Not quite from a Hat. Fancy that.
Limners. Visionaries.
Life’s Queries.
Like a single leaf or three
From a splendid Maple Tree.
PS. No bad feelings. I only read at random forty of them. Bizzy, bizzy…or so we think.
Let’s drink to Poems. Yassir.
Scheme | XXAAXXXBXXCXXXCCBB XX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (45%) Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 10101 111110 10000100 10101 0100010 11110 11010 11010 1100101 00111 010 110 11100101 11101101 11000 110 1010111 1010101 111101101110101110101111 1111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 525 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 18, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Written on February 09, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 09, 2023
Modified by dougb.21370 on February 09, 2023
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