Analysis of His "Word's-eye View" of the Game



The streak of calling 3,338 consecutive games
Will ( I hope, as a fan) be a record
Unbroken, at least, as long as I'm alive--
Or around. Now that our beloved "Chickie Baby"
Is forever in Heaven's hardcourt to
Call every game--looking down, I will miss
Him so--looking up, as I try to listen to
Someone else's voice calling the play-by-play.
I will miss him "put the baby to bed."
I will miss him calling a player "throwing
A brick"...his "ticky-tack"... "back and
Forth like a windshield wiper" call
When a ball misses--or makes the basket.
I will miss his "popcorn machine" and
"Pressure cooker." I will miss him when a player
"Blooows a lay-up," "picks his pocket"and
"Fakes a floperoo" on a "frozen rope."
I will miss him when a player is "caught
With his hand in the cookie jar" and I will
Miss him when a ball does not "draw an iron."


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 0111001001 1111011001 01011111101 101111001110 101001011 11001101111 111011111101 1101100111 1111101011 11111001010 011110 1101101 1011011010 11111010 101011111010 1011111 10110101 1111101011 11100101011 11101111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 820
Words 161
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 623
Words per stanza (avg) 154
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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