Analysis of Three Ears and Three Eyes
A poet needs to have three ears;
The first two for all sounds.
The third one is the one he needs
For words that float around.
Those are the stand-out words he hears
That grab attention tight,
And shake him 'till he finds a pen
So, he can start to write.
He also needs a third eye to
See any stand-out word
That he finds on a printed page;
Imagination stirred!
I'm glad I have three ears and eyes;
I take them everywhere,
Because I never know just when
I might have thoughts to share.
Scheme | XXXX XABA XCXC XDBD |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 01011111 011111 01110111 111101 11011111 110101 01111101 111111 11010111 110111 11110101 00101 11111101 11110 01110111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 486 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Written on August 28, 2023
Submitted by stevec.24118 on August 28, 2023
Modified by stevec.24118 on August 28, 2023
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