Analysis of Armchair Critic
He is an armchair critic
Who likes to watch the news
Staring at his old TV
He mumbles as he views
And when the politicians speak
He almost blows a fuse!
He disagrees with everything
Or so it seems these days
He doesn't like the news anchor
Or half of what she says
It seems to him the world's gone mad
In oh so many ways
He sits there in his old armchair
With no-one else around
He seldom turns the TV off
He craves that constant sound
It drives away the loneliness
That's one thing that he's found
He's an old forgotten soldier
A hero from the war
He seldom speaks about those days —
The horrors that he saw.
He sometimes sits and ponders
And asks
"What was it for?"
Copyright © Robert Haigh 2017
| Scheme | XAXAXA XBCXXB XDXDXD CEBXXXE X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 111101 1011111 110111 0100101 11101 1001110 111111 11010110 111111 11110111 011101 1110111 111101 11010111 111101 11010100 111111 11101010 010101 11010111 010111 1011010 01 1111 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 715 |
| Words | 140 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 7, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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