Analysis of The Myth Of Fame



Fighting Tuesday’s boredom,
  he decided to play a game

And because he’d never done it,
  he decided to test his fame

He mouthed the most nonsensical words
  with imagery askant

Then wrote them down from right to left,
  a backward forward rant

To see if then his audience,
  could make sense of this ruse

He published in the New York Times,
  for readers there to muse

To his surprise they cheered and raved,
  and called his name out loud

And said that T.S. Eliot,
  from his gravesite would be proud

They found deep meaning in every word,
  each rooted as a farce

And saw an abstract Moby Dick,
  within his dark discourse

With pen in hand he pushed away,
  and leaned back in his chair

And scratched his head in wonderment,
 —at the myth his fame could bear

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)


Scheme XA BA XB XX XC XC XD XD XX XX XE XE X
Poetic Form
Metre 10110 1101101 00111011 1101111 110101001 11001 11111111 010101 11111100 111111 11000111 110111 11011101 011111 01111100 111111 1111001001 110101 01101101 011110 11011101 011011 01110100 1011111 010010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 785
Words 143
Sentences 3
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 11
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 28, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kurt Philip Behm

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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