Analysis of How Silly Of Me (Senryu)

Edwin Tanguma 1966 (CA)



How Silly Of Me   (Senryu)

I long for Calgon
As I lie in my warm bath
How silly of me

Edwin Tanguma   Aka   Dagesh   2/28/3024


Scheme X XXX X
Poetic Form Tetractys  (40%)
Metre 110111 11110 1110111 11011 10010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 128
Words 27
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 1
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 30
Words per stanza (avg) 11

About this poem

Just a silly poem that is not meant to make any sense at all…So what’s up with these unusual thunderstorms???As IF it could have anything at all to do with a certain Uber or Ubers…

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Written on February 29, 2024

Submitted by EdwinRayTanguma on February 29, 2024

Modified by EdwinRayTanguma on February 29, 2024

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