Analysis of Wordplay
Of the many words to choose there must be a gazillion.
Should we lose fine descriptions by using half a million?
Discordant sounds in the ear vibrate as cacophony.
Clashing noise tonality generates disharmony.
Ignorant obtuseness designates analphabet.
It is illiteracy in a witlessness beset.
Fraudulent hoodwinking styles are methods to bamboozle.
Chicane shams and trickery are used to dupe and baffle.
Postulated enigmas are difficult conundrums.
Conjectural mind-teasers are proposition theorems.
An exceptional event is a lollapalooza.
Extraordinary "something" for mammal brain's cerebra.
Lexicographic practice presents words for little cost.
The expense is energy for usage before they're lost.
Scheme | AA AA BB CC DD DX BB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101011111101 11110101101010 01010011010100 1010100100100 1001101 110100000101 1001111011 1101001111010 1111001 11110101 1010001100010 01001011011 1101011101 00111001100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 690 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on January 13, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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