Analysis of A Roaming Gnome
A gnome went for a walk one day
Along the garden path
He saw another standing guard
Next to the new birdbath
Being a sweet and friendly sort
He stopped to pass the time
The other said no single word
Are there such as gnomish mimes?
Our hero frowned, but passed him by
For rudeness he had felt
He spied another down the path
Who's smile seemed so heartfelt
But this one too rebuffed our friend
And spoke no single thought
Our hero tipped his hat and left
For kindness he'd been taught
Yet when a third just would not speak
And a fourth and fifth were mute
Our gnome took stock of breath and pits
Their silence did not compute
The friendly gnome just hurried off
With a teardrop in his eye
They might not ever speak to him
But they would not see him cry
So large folk, stop and give a thought
No one should feel this slighted
Ceramic gnomes are oh so cute
But the real ones are nearsighted
Copyright c2005 Brian E. Spivey
Scheme | XAXA XXXB CDAD XEXE XFBF XCXC EGFG X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01110111 010101 11010101 11011 10010101 111101 01011101 111111 101011111 110111 11010101 11111 111101101 011101 101011101 110111 11011111 0010101 101111101 1101101 01011101 101011 11110111 1111111 11110101 1111110 01011111 1011110 10110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 891 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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