Analysis of Have you ever?



Just stopped all that
You are doing, saying.
A mental fart of sort.
Nothing to report, save
A pleasant hiatus
From now.
Or perhaps from plow?
Brain has been overworked
Perhaps.
Unsteady plans.
Worries, bill paying.
Children and school reports.
Good or bad.
Job issues with new foreman.
That shameful moment
You had, when something
Bad got noticed.
And the Brain said
“Whoa Brother, Cool it.
Save some adrenaline, wontchya?
I am calling recess.”

(Just like when the school bell
Rings beneath your apartment.
And the kids get all
Silly, as silly they must.)


Scheme XAXXXBBXXXAXXXCADXXXX XCXD
Poetic Form Tetractys  (28%)
Metre 1111 111010 010111 101011 010010 11 10111 11101 01 0101 10110 100101 111 1101110 11010 11110 1110 0011 11011 1101001 111001 111011 1011010 00111 1011011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 561
Words 112
Sentences 17
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 21, 4
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 218
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Written on March 12, 2023

Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 12, 2023

Modified by dougb.19255 on March 13, 2023

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Wayne Blair

Born in London. Graduated law 1976 Practised eleven years, Married Hilary 1974 Two kids Lauren 1980 And Jordan 1987. Business failed 1987. Moved not knowing whither. Happy hills of Waterloo Region. Mennonite Country. Thirty four years in Industry. No complaints. Poet, photographer, nature hiker. Harmonica busker. http://puffnchord7.blogspot.com/ more…

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