Analysis of A Drivel of a Kind



Billy, Rex, Jimmy, Joel and Robert--
To name a few...gifted few-- good and great,
I love watching and "listening" to on tv.
Rudyard, Edgar, Mark, William and Robert...
I love reading and yes, devouring.
Frankly, honestly, I love words--
Written and spoken.
And I love them "smooth and easy."
I hate them when they don't
Come out and down on paper the same...
That I'd mumble and amble to
The Word "complaining" in good faith,
That "almost always" every single time,
Magically, the nib burns and the ink spills.
O, how I love the sight of "good ink" on paper
And the sound of "good air" on tv!
I used to fear them long and "difficult"--
Orthographically, like this word considered
The longest in any language and in any
Dictionary: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.


Scheme ABCADEFCGHIJKLMCNOCP
Poetic Form Tetractys  (25%)
Metre 1011010010 11011101 111001001111 1010110010 1110010100 10100111 10010 01111010 111111 110111001 11100101 01010011 111100101 10000110011 111101111110 001111111 1111110100 1111010 010010100010 1001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 749
Words 133
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 582
Words per stanza (avg) 131
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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