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
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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Submitted by RobertHaigh on August 04, 2020

Modified on April 02, 2023

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