Analysis of An Ode To Teddy



An artist or laughingstock,
  — who makes the choice?

A genius or fool,
  — will spirits rejoice?

A sage or a caricature,
  — who gets to choose?

The one now exposed,
  — or he with nothing to lose?

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2015)


Scheme XA XA XB XB X
Poetic Form
Metre 110110 1101 01011 11001 01101000 1111 01101 1111011 01001010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 237
Words 42
Sentences 5
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 34
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on April 26, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Longtime writer with twelve books in publication. Three of them Poetry. : The Death Of The Playground : The Sword Of Ichiban : Searching For Crazy Horse : Darkening Sun : An Anthology Of Perception-Vol's 1 & 2 : After Midnight : Sammy And Bumpers : The Fall City Mandate : Revenge Along The War Trail : Death from The Sky more…

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