Analysis of The Overworked Poet
There was a poet, name was stanley creech,
Renowned for poems are love and lore
And sapience and morals that he'd teach,
All from the heart and kept on writing more
Until this happened: He was called upon
To write a poem most exemplary.
His brain he cudgeled but no words could spawn
So randomly he wrote to set this free:
Why is this crowd? What means this stir in Rome?
The Hesperus which breaking waves dashed high
Beneath a chestnut tree, no place like home!
And on and on he elequently wrote
So that from brain to pen these words did float!
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 011101101 01010111 1101011101 0111011101 1101010100 111111111 1100111111 1111111101 01110111 010111111 0101111 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 431 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 103 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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