Analysis of Ode to a Genius
When you lived in a modest little white house in Princeton,
you thought big ideas.
You said it was relative…
time and light and energy…
You wore your hair wild as tumbleweed
when you stuck your tongue out at some lucky photographer.
You didn’t know that
we wouldn’t let you take back your biggest,
your most powerful, your most frightening idea
when you lived in a modest little white house in Princeton.
| Scheme | AbcdefeeeA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11100101011010 111010 1111100 1010100 1111111 11111111100100 1111 111111110 1110011100010 11100101011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 403 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 323 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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