Analysis of The Myth Of Fame
Fighting Tuesday’s boredom,
he decided to play a game
And because he’d never done it,
he decided to test his fame
He mouthed the most nonsensical words
with imagery askant
Then wrote them down from right to left,
a backward forward rant
To see if then his audience,
could make sense of this ruse
He published in the New York Times,
for readers there to muse
To his surprise they cheered and raved,
and called his name out loud
And said that T.S. Eliot,
from his gravesite would be proud
They found deep meaning in every word,
each rooted as a farce
And saw an abstract Moby Dick,
within his dark discourse
With pen in hand he pushed away,
and leaned back in his chair
And scratched his head in wonderment,
—at the myth his fame could bear
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Scheme | XA BA XB XX XC XC XD XD XX XX XE XE X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110 1101101 00111011 1101111 110101001 11001 11111111 010101 11111100 111111 11000111 110111 11011101 011111 01111100 111111 1111001001 110101 01101101 011110 11011101 011011 01110100 1011111 010010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 785 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 48 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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