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
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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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