Analysis of Reading Poetry Out Loud
My wife has gone out
with a girlfriend for the day,
so I sit and read
some of my favourite poems
out loud. Really loud!
Reading a poem out loud
brings out the musicality
of the piece.
I let my lungs rip into Larkin,
then follow with a foray
into Masefield's "Mother Carey."
I stop for tea and a toasted tea-cake
before resuming with
Bukowski's "Bluebird."
Then I venture into
Voltaire's vivid and varied verse.
I finish with a little levity,
letting out my inner lampoon,
laughing like a lunatic
at Lear's Limericks!
Then my wife arrives home
and asks, "What have you
been doing with yourself?"
"Oh, just reading quietly
in the corner,"
I reply.
Copyright © Robert Haigh 2017
Scheme | XAXXB BCX XAC XXX DX CXXX XDX CXX A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 101101 11101 111110 11101 1001011 1100100 101 111110110 1101010 0111010 1111001011 010101 11 111001 1100101 1101010100 10111001 101010 11100 111011 01111 110101 1110100 0010 101 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 3, 3, 2, 4, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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