Analysis of Oxymoron



"Old news" is antilogical and opposite in kind.
"Small disaster" and "silent scream" are
conflicting thoughts in mind.
"One choice" is incongruity and dissonant in fact.
"Awfully good" and "constant change" are anomalies intact.
"Black light" is contradictory and conflicting in type.
"Plastic glasses" and "larger half" are un-befitting in swipe.
"Sweet tart" is paradoxical and perplexing in frame.
"Pretty ugly" and "all alone" are unsuitable in claim.
"Good grief" is double entendre and confusing in set.
"Open secret" and "found missing" are implications in fret.
"Small crowd" is ambiguity and nebulous in grade.
"Act natural" and "real phony" are connotations in fade.
"Calm wind" is antagonistic and discordant in sort.
"Strangely common" and "even odds" are inaccurate in sport.
"Sun shade" is antithetical and discrepant in-group.
"White chocolate" and "hot chili" are absurdities in scoop.


Scheme ABACCDDEEFFGGHHII
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010001 101001011 010101 1110100010001 10101011010001 1110100001001 101001011101001 1110100001001 101001011010001 11110010001001 10100110101001 1110100010001 11000110101001 1110010001001 101001011010001 11101000101 11001101010001
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 885
Words 136
Sentences 16
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 41
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 700
Words per stanza (avg) 136
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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