Analysis of poem #16
David Plantinga 1972 (Sherbrooke)
Badinage and Persiflage
Make such a merry pair,
Chatting and bantering all day.
No spiteful gossip there.
Each goes without acquaintances.
Each has one single friend.
As solitary sprites, they speak
Of words, without an end.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 101 110101 10010011 110101 11010100 111101 1100111 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 226 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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