Analysis of Pundits Of Ruin



Do nothings
wth tenure
poseurs sublime

Their barrels
sit empty
coated
with lime

The space
they take up
much better off
closed

For those
they have
poisoned
— Hades to know  

(Haverford College: April, 2024)


Scheme XXA XXXA XXXX XXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 110 110 101 110 110 10 11 01 111 1101 1 11 11 10 1011 1001010
Characters 211
Words 40
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 10
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 7
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 03, 2024

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