Analysis of Don’t Waste This Space with Heavy Words
Don’t waste this space with heavy words
Cramped with bulging thought
That hurt the ear to hear
Or shriveled, dry and taut
Don’t offer pretty sayings
Or make them strut in quips
Or cage them in cute couplets
Adore them more than this
Don’t color your proud verse
The others did it best
The words will slip their stanzas
And escape their narrow nets
Don't dribble metaphors
So dull and undappled
Or burn astringent adjectives
that crack and feed the gulls
Don’t parade your verdant verbosity
As I just did above
Words are tools for carpenters
Building homes with honest love
Don’t sashay your structured-wit
Piling more and more on less
Those saccharin synonyms
More cloying than the rest
Don’t read these little words
If better ones will do
I will not decorate a rhyme
Or write lovely lines for you
| Scheme | ABXB XXAX XCXX XBXX BDXD XXAC AEXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (43%) |
| Metre | 11111101 11101 110111 110101 1101010 111101 111011 011111 110111 010111 0111110 0011101 110100 1101 11010100 110101 1011101 111101 1111100 1011101 111101 1010111 11001 110101 111101 110111 1111001 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 815 |
| Words | 147 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 28 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted by 11jen.helmer on January 23, 2022
Modified by 11jen.helmer on January 29, 2022
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