Analysis of A Poet’s Ponderance
How to clip the inclination
To share my every scribble,
While they sit in trepidation,
Listening to my dribble?
How to trip up my temptation
To gush to them with gusto?
While they wait with toleration,
(Not commenting very much though.)
I know it’s just imagination,
That there’s anyone who cares.
They take in my animation,
Nodding at me with blank stares.
Now here comes a contemplation,
Sinking in to make me smile.
It condones my recitation,
If just for a little while.
Each desires their own distraction,
Some small way of breaking free
I’ve indulged all their diversions
Now they need to humor ME.
Scheme | ABAB ACAC ADAD AEAE AFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110010 11110010 1110010 1001110 11111010 111111 1111010 11001011 11110010 111011 1101010 1011111 1110010 1001111 1011010 1110101 101011010 1111101 10111010 1111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 620 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Lately, I’ve been excited to read my newest poems to everyone around me. I’m getting the feeling though, that this is becoming a tiresome thing for my audiences. Cute for a while I suppose, but not everyone is a fan of poetry, I guess.
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