Analysis of Cliche



Cliches are trite expressions assumed to be the truth.
These hackneyed situations are commonplace and scouth.
"Many ways to skin a cat" is an unlikely case.
Many ways of doing things does nothing to debase.
"Many truths are told in jest" is inadequacy.
Many lies are also told as joke of jeopardy.
"The pot that's watched doesn't boil" is simply not a fact.
The boiling point impatience describes what is exact.
"The choices are sink or swim" is minus quite a few.
The choices are numerous, no limits to construe.
"Its better late than never" unless you miss the boat.
Its better to be on time is what it should connote.
"You always hurt ones you love" is a strange perversion.
You always love the hurt ones should be the conversion.
"It's simply the thought that counts" leads to disappointment.
It's the thought followed by deeds that serves as anointment.
"People are just what they eat" is fact only in weight.
People are what's eating them is a more fit dictate.
Examine the examples of such misleading themes.
Obvious reality each one clearly blasphemes.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGGHDIIJB
Poetic Form
Metre 0111010011101 11001011001 1011101110101 1011101110101 1011101101000 1011101111100 0111101110101 0101010011101 0101111110101 0101100110101 1101110011101 1101111111101 111111101010 111011110010 110011111010 10110111111 1011111111001 1011101101101 0100010110101 1001011101
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,041
Words 184
Sentences 20
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 835
Words per stanza (avg) 184
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Submitted on February 05, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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