Analysis of Write-At-First-Thought
A poem approaches
Another in a book,
He's a bundle of words.
Ink rushes downward through
Their letters, her title
Smacks against his while she
Looks straight into his I's
To see if they're dotted
And all his T's are crossed
With punctuation marks
In place on the paper.
Finally, a poem
Leaves a name for himself,
Scheme | XX XXX XXX XXX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010010 010001 101011 110101 110010 101111 110111 111110 011111 10101 011010 100010 101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 320 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 49 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
About this poem
Muse approaches Poet out of nowhere with a passionate hug and kiss at a club in Memphis, Tennessee Etcetera September 4th, 1988.
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