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
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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