Analysis of Barnyard Banter

Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)



Red Rooster
jumped out on the floor

With his main chick
Sweet Sally Sue Cluck

Struttin and strollin’
try’n not to get plucked

Billy Bantam said…
to his homeboy Fred

If that was my chick,
she’d dye her feathers blue

Back in the day,
if you were nobody’s flunky

You demonstrate
your playful side...

It's a sophisticated,
sporty'n spunky crew…

all out in the "Dew Drop Inn

dance'n" a rollicking romp
of barnyard banter...

that will knock
your bunny rabbit socks off

get you to wiggling and giggling
doin’ what you do

hollering out/stomping the ground
sayin’ to the beat something about

"The roof is on fire,
let the “Mutha f’er Burn"

throwing your hands
up in the air

screaming and shouting
“like you just don’t care”

juke joint jaunting
funkified versions

of chicken little's
raunchiest nursery rhymes,

make you laugh yourself silly…
havin’ a really good time

rocking yourself
right out of your roost

strutting your stuff
like you've got to put out

a seven alarm fire
on your tail feathers

shaking it loose,
like a silly goose

as you put it down
into a bucket of ice water

to keep it cool just long enough

so that when they tone it down
at the end of the evening

if you're not too "fried"
to grinding ...with a nasty twitch,

swayin’ side to side
 …laying it down you

and your Main chick

ride Sally
ride

Copyright ©2023 CEF2


Scheme AX BX CX DD BE XB XF XE C XA XG HE XI AC XJ HJ BX XX KX XX LI AX MM CA L CH FX FE B KF G
Poetic Form
Metre 110 11101 1111 11011 101 11111 10101 1111 11111 110101 1001 11011 110 1101 100100 101101 1100111 1101001 1110 111 1101011 1111000100 1111 10011001 11011001 011110 10111 1011 1001 10010 11111 111 110 11010 11001 1110110 101011 1001 11111 1011 111111 0100110 11110 1011 10101 11111 010101110 11111101 1111111 1011010 11111 11010101 1111 10111 0111 110 1 101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,423
Words 305
Sentences 4
Stanzas 31
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1
Lines Amount 58
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 8
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Written on 2020

Submitted by Charles2 on September 16, 2023

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