Analysis of To Certain Poets
Joyce Kilmer 1886 (New Brunswick) – 1918 (Seringes-et-Nesles)
Now is the rhymer's honest trade
A thing for scornful laughter made.
The merchant's sneer, the clerk's disdain,
These are the burden of our pain.
Because of you did this befall,
You brought this shame upon us all.
You little poets mincing there
With women's hearts and women's hair!
How sick Dan Chaucer's ghost must be
To hear you lisp of "Poesie"!
A heavy-handed blow, I think,
Would make your veins drip scented ink.
You strut and smirk your little while
So mildly, delicately vile!
Your tiny voices mock God's wrath,
You snails that crawl along His path!
Why, what has God or man to do
With wet, amorphous things like you?
This thing alone you have achieved:
Because of you, it is believed
That all who earn their bread by rhyme
Are like yourselves, exuding slime.
Oh, cease to write, for very shame,
Ere all men spit upon our name!
Take up your needles, drop your pen,
And leave the poet's craft to men!
Scheme | AA BB CC DD XX EE FF GG HH II JJ KK LL |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1101101 01110101 01010101 110101101 01111101 11110111 11010101 11010101 11110111 111111 01010111 11111101 11011101 11010001 11010111 11110111 11111111 11010111 11011101 01111101 11111111 11010101 11111101 111101101 11110111 01010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 902 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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