Analysis of The Silliest Poem I’ve ever Written
I’m just an itching person,
Wherever I go,
Fleas are following me.
Oh Lord, won’t you let me be free!
The other day,
I was driving down the highway,
Can’t drive, but I was driving all the same,
When I saw this flea,
He was hitch-hiking.
Oh Lord, won’t you let me be free!
So I stopped and said,
You can jump right in,
There’s room for more,
And that’s what he did, saying,
Oh Lord, you’ve set me free!
I’m just an itching person,
Wherever I go,
Fleas are following me.
Oh Lord, won’t you let me be free!
Inge Meldgaard
2010
Based on a song written when I was 10 years old – a very long time ago
| Scheme | ABCC ddxceC xxxec ABCC dxb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010 01011 111001 11111111 0101 1110101 1111110101 11111 11110 11111111 11101 11110 1111 0111110 111111 1111010 01011 111001 11111111 11 1 110110111110101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 593 |
| Words | 120 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 5, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 22 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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