Analysis of A bit of a lark
A bit of a lark
I tried to write
It wouldn't come out
Onto the paper
I flailed about
I wrote it in pencil
I wrote it in pen
The words wouldn't come
I set fire to the den
I wrote on the walls
I wrote on the dog
But all I could of think of
Was a bloody great fog
I talked to my wife
About all that was life
It only upset her
And got me in strife
I went back to the bookwork
But the words wouldn't flow
Kicked the cat in frustration
And broke my big toe
I rang up my mate
For advise and a yak
He said seriously Bud
Your a washed up old hack
Now I couldn't except this
Writing defeat
So I put on some tunes
An inspirational beat
But it didn't help
I fell off my chair
Impaling my arse
With an Indian spare
So in closing a warning
About writing the prose
It's a dangerous pastime
You could blow off your nose
R P Edwards
Scheme | A XBCB XDXD EXXX FFCF AGXG XHXH XIXI XJEJ XKXKX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101 1111 11011 10010 1101 111010 11101 01101 1110101 11101 11101 1111111 101011 11111 011111 110010 01101 111101 101101 1010010 01111 11111 101001 1110001 101111 1110011 1001 111111 101001 11101 11111 01011 111001 1010010 011001 101001 111111 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
Something lighted to bring a smile.
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