Analysis of National Poetry Day
(The theme of last year's poetry day in the UK was heroes and heroines; it happened to be on my birthday, which must have been just a coincidence !)
We are a poetry nation
for one spectacular day
when all heroes and heroines
find their wordy way
citizens skip breakfast
and grab a dusty tin
filled with little-used words
that just escaped the bin
once we put them together
on the door of the rusty fridge
before we got a rescue dog
with a back like a rocky ridge
he tried to shift each piece
with the help of a giant paw
but the small magnetic words
often fell to the floor
or stuck in slobbery chops
like exotic doggy chews
some we managed to save
others we’d simply lose
a hero is not a soldier
or climber of some peak
or world champion driver
or pop star of the week
it can be any person
retrieving scattered words
joining them together
making magical birds
that fly from the page
and sing in the trees
or manufacture honey
like industrious bees
Scheme | X AB XB XC DC EF XF XX DX XG XG EH EH AD ED XI XI |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111001001110010110111111111100100 11010010 1101001 1110010 11101 100110 010101 111011 110101 1111010 10110101 01110101 10110101 111111 10110101 1010101 101101 11011 1010101 111011 101101 01011010 110111 1110010 111101 1111010 010101 101010 101001 11101 01001 101010 101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 918 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on January 25, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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