Analysis of Olly
Pulling out of the wheels heels on high
Even the campus barbees turn to their hives.
And the off-camp zaddies stares from their rives
Whining down their tinted to spy
As tall as a just-emerged miss world deified by a crowd,
Her head in the cloud.
With all the beauties of the world hidden behind a short gown
Aww, dote and drown!
Thighs uncladed, but they can only stare,
Stare they do, but they can't even dare
Oh, Forbidden Desire!
Sinful Olly
Prettier than the godly.
Uncladed, her cleavage,
A designed coincidence to wilden her beauty spectators, savage!
Grant us! Oh, grant us at least a drop of solace!
They cry, but she makes no promise.
Have I met you before?
I'm Olly; she said
Don't you recognize me anymore?
I do, I do; ask Ted
It's just that I'm dazzled,
Like a deer standing before a headlight, dazzled
By how such beauty could dwell under my brow,
And I've not noticed until now.
Your smiles, so infectious!
It gives me the cancer of the brain that I'm anxious.
It makes me forget the beauty of Amsel and Daisy
Both sisters of Disney,
Pious and dutiful.
Are they beautiful?
I've been blind to more things than one.
Lock your hand in my hand and throw the key in the sea
Rent my arm for your arm and pay no fee
That should you drop like a leaf from a tree
Let me be here to catch you in my palms, free.
Take one step at a time,
Leave men suffer.
Take one step at a time,
Leave them suffer longer.
Scheme | abba ccdd eefgg hhii jkjkllmm iiggnnx gggg OfOf |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (23%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 101101111 1001011111 001111111 10111011 11101011110101 01001 110101011001011 1101 11111101 111111101 1100010 1010 1001010 1010 001010011001010010 111111101110 11111110 111101 11011 1110101 111111 111110 10110010110 11110111011 01110011 111010 1110101011110 1110101011010 110110 100100 11100 11111111 1110110101001 1111110111 1111101101 11111110111 111101 1110 111101 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,418 |
Words | 303 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4, 8, 7, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted by jerrylov322 on May 21, 2023
Modified by jerrylov322 on June 04, 2023
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