Analysis of in China
nobody likes my poem about shovels in China
a poem about there not being any shovels
in China
they say it is unrelatable
to them
they wonder what it means?
some say that
despite my assertion that there are no
publicly known shovels in China
that in fact
there are actually shovels in China
Listen, readers
I've never been to China
I've been to the East China Sea...
which is pretty darned close
here's the point...
I believe
these people asserting the existence of
Chinese shovels
are confusing those shovels
manufactured
in China
(en Chine)
for there actually being shovels
utilized in China
and that,
is a huge distinction
I suppose I failed to make
so...
here is the poem again
with corrections:
In China:
chopsticks,
toothpicks,
but not shovels
(utilized)
in China
they love to talk about
(dropping pots and pans)
(and shovels for bass)
but there aren't
digging
not with shovels
not
in China
I hope this clears up your confusion
I am sure that it does
Scheme | abA xxx cdaxa xaxx xxxbbxAabacexdxx Affbx AxxxxxbxA ex |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100110010 0100111101010 010 11111 11 110111 111 0110101111 100110010 101 1110010010 1010 1101110 11101101 111011 101 101 11001000101 0110 1010110 010 010 11 111001010 10010 01 101010 1011111 1 1101001 1010 010 1 1 1110 10 010 111101 10101 01011 1110 10 1110 1 010 111111010 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 910 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 5, 4, 16, 5, 9, 2 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on April 09, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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