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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