Analysis of Young Poet

Walt Sisikin 1953 (Santiago)



So, Little Johnny though that he was a poet
Except, the rhymes were not his and he didn’t know it
The rhymes were originally his dad’s, out of his dad’s mouth they came
Little Johnny only listened, wrote them down and considered them his, just the same
You see, Little Johnny’s dad was not present in the room
When Little Johnny listened to the tape recorder over zoom
Such was Little Johnny’s life
Full of mysteries, dad adulation and strife
Little Johnny had never known his dad at all
So, Little Johnny had created a dad avatar and was having a ball
The AI had been a lot of help indeed
Without the AI the avatar would not have been believed
The words that came out of the avatar were so real
They sounded true, near and the rhymes had an exceptional feel
Dad AI had done it, Dad was all Johnny needed in life to become a poet
Except the rhymes were not his and he didn’t know it.


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Poetic Form
Metre 110101111010 010101101111 01001000111111111 10101010111001011101 1110111110001 1101010101010101 111011 11100101001 101011011111 1101010100110011001 0111011101 0101010111101 011111010011 110110011101001 11111111101001101010 010101101111
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 895
Words 170
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 44
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 697
Words per stanza (avg) 170
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Written on July 28, 2023

Submitted by wsisikin on July 28, 2023

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