Analysis of Address to a mother fucker
Touche parry thou literary
Cream of its cleek society
Does air the grace disparagingly
Devoid of all hilarity
Who cross the street by rapidly
Quite apt to do so happily
As if that solved a riddle
Of what was in the middle
And with as much disdain
To play a silly game
Had I spied me on the street
I might have done the same
No jig-poke now I say things clear
Saying as it is right here
Where hope is lost no purpose be
When poets bleat mere fantasy
Thus to the other side of me
Before the bloke 'availed' to flee
Projected I ahead of he
And harked this strain enjoyably
Just like the slinky squirrel
That ran around a tree
Only to find it squarely
On the other side of me
This fair willed raptured circus ride
As crabs do aptly at low tide
Scuttle somewhere safe to hide
To thee I must confide
I like it when there's two of me
I give myself some company
If I like it when there's three of me
It's rarely ever four
J M. Ippolito
Scheme | AAAA AABB XCXC XXAA AAAA BAAA DDDD AAAX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101100 11110100 110101000 01110100 11011100 11111100 1111010 1110010 011101 110101 1111101 111101 11111111 1011111 11111101 11011100 11010111 01010111 01010111 01110100 1101010 110101 1011110 1010111 1111101 11110111 101111 111101 11111111 1111100 111111111 110101 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 921 |
Words | 190 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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