Analysis of Bad Poetry
François Giroux 1982 (Canada)
I penned a love ballad
That ended in tragedy
I recited an elegy
But the crowd laughed
I wrote a poem for us
And it was fatal
| Scheme | XA AX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110110 1100100 10101100 1011 1101011 01110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 119 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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