Analysis of PICASSO, THE DYSLEXIC PAINTER
When Pablo Picasso first tried to paint
He found that he was colour blind,
And when he tried using join-the-dots
His dyslexia left him in a bind.
For without being able to read or count
He joined up all the wrong numbers,
And the colour-blind critics hailed his work
Before old Pablo realised his blunders.
So what could poor old Pablo do?
Except continue on his blundering way,
Fooling the false intellectual critics
And ignoring those who saw he couldn’t paint.
So, for decades he continued stumbling along
Being hailed as the genius that he never was,
But Pablo wasn’t really trying to cheat
His colour-blindness and dyslexia were the cause:
The cause of all his awful works
Paintings best burnt, not hung up on walls,
But while the false intellectuals rule
Picasso’s undeserved fame will never fall.
THE END
© Copyright 2021 Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XXXA XDXD XXXX XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100101111 1111111 011110101 1010011001 10110101111 11110110 001110111 011101110 11111101 01010111001 1001010010 0010111111 1101101010001 101101011101 1101101011 111000100001 01111101 101111111 110101001 0100111101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 859 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
Okay, I was being sarcastic with this one; but I couldn't imagine what else could explain Picasso's hideous daubs.
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Written on January 14, 2009
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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