Analysis of It Could Have been Most Anything
It Could Have Been Most Anything
It could have been a fantasy. It could have been a dream.
It could have been a fallacy or some kooky theme.
Whatever it turns out to be it's a crazy scheme.
It could have been a psychopath. It could have been a nut.
It could have been a lunacy or some scuttlebutt.
Whatever it turns out to be it's a hidden rut.
It could have been chateaubriand. It could have been a scrod.
It could have been an artifice or some false façade.
Whatever it turns out to be it's a big charade.
It could have been an elephant. It could have been a whale.
It could have been an invention or some fairy tale.
Whatever it turns out to be it's a betrayal.
It could have been a basketball. It could have been a bat.
It could have been a guttersnipe or some urchin brat.
Whatever it turns out to be it's a real combat.
It could have been an aperitif. It could have been Rhine wine.
It could have been an aberrance or some conga line.
Whatever it turns out to be it's a weird design.
It could have been most anything. It could have been a filch.
It could have been a ding-a-ling or some banal zilch.
Whatever it turns out to be it's a chilly squelch.
© Wallace Dean LaBenne
Scheme | X AAA BBB XCC DDX EEE FFF GGX F |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 11110100111101 1111010011101 101111110101 1111010111101 111101001110 101111110101 11111111101 1111110011111 101111110101 11111100111101 1111101011101 101111110010 1111010111101 11110111101 101111110110 11111001111111 11111111101 101111110101 1111110111101 1111010111011 101111110101 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,159 |
Words | 231 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on June 15, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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