Analysis of Tick Box Tourist
She is a tick box tourist,
Trotting round the globe;
Totting up her air miles,
But she's a xenophobe!
She likes to say, "I've been there!"
(Wherever 'there' may be.)
She's bought the T-shirt too;
A form of snobbery.
She thinks she's highly cultured,
But hasn't got a clue!
Although she's been to Rio,
And also Kathmandu.
She paid a flying visit
To Moscow, just last week.
She's telling everybody
That Russia is so chic!
She sniggered when I told her
I'm going to Aberdeen.
But even so, that's somewhere
I know SHE's never been!
Copyright © Robert Haigh 2016
| Scheme | ABXB CDED XEXA XFDF XXCX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110 10101 11011 1101 1111111 010111 110111 011100 1111010 110101 111110 0101 1101010 11111 110100 110111 111110 110110 110111 111101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 576 |
| Words | 104 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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