Analysis of Cellphone Folly
He bawls me out
That I am not
Responsive on my phone.
Many days spent, no charge.
Many days left on bureau.
Who’s gonna call, anyway?
Few face to face friends.
Family.
Facebook seldom counts.
Product solicitors, always
At suppertime.
Pranksters with some
Threatening allegation, bunk.
The Mounties are after me
Or some such.
But he almost has a
Surgical attachment of
His cell.
Bay Street broker of years.
Brilliant intuitions.
Many successes.
Higher up patron of TIFF events.
Hundreds of gobblers
Needing him, needing him
Feeding off him.
Friends?
And he runs off
To walk his dog.
Chat with Wife. Happily.
Listen to Frank Sinatra.
Fill the winter’s bird feeder.
Dreaming of summer hideout
At the Bay. Georgian. And blue.
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Metre | 1111 1111 010111 101111 1011110 110110 11111 100 1101 1001001 11 1011 1000101 0101101 111 11110 1000101 11 111011 101 10010 101101101 101100 101101 1011 1 0111 1111 111100 1011010 1010110 101101 1011001 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 798 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 28 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 18, 1 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 193 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Written on March 06, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 06, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on March 06, 2023
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