Analysis of A Word For It



'Scorn not the sonnet.' Well, I reckon not,
  I would not scorn a rondeau, villanelle,
  Ballade, sestina, triolet, rondel,
Or e'en a quatrain, humble and forgot,
An so it made my Pegasus to trot
  His morning lap what time he heard the bell;
  An so it made the poem stuff to jell-
To mix a met.-an so it boil'd the pot.

Oh, sweet set form that varies not a bit!
  I taste thy joy, not quite unknown to Keats.
    'Scorn? ' Nay, I love thy fine symmetric
      grace.
In sonnets one knows always where to quit,
  Unlike in other poems where one cheats
    And strings it out to fill the yawning
      space.


Scheme ABBAABBA CDEFCDEF
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011101 11110011 01111 1110110001 1111110011 1101111101 1111010111 1101111101 1111110101 1111110111 1111111 1 010111111 0101010111 011111010 1
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 603
Words 116
Sentences 9
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 217
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Franklin P. Adams

Franklin Pierce Adams was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F. P. A.. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s. more…

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