Analysis of The Intellectual Elf
Working at looking studious,
the academic went his way
Pontificating what he didn’t know,
his students bowed and swayed
Reading only what was duly sworn
writing safe, within the shelf
To himself was he now smitten blind
—an intellectual elf
(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
Scheme | XX XX XA XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110100 0010111 01001111 110101 101011101 1010101 101111101 101001 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 284 |
Words | 44 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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