Analysis of What
Valiantstar 1961 (Sydney)
What has this looney said
I think he must be off his head.
Some drunken fool
Past his prime
Copying things from ancient times
Hard to see
Not much
Flow
Out of the loop
Not in the show
The real attraction
You may find
Written on your hearts
And minds
So some raving fool
Sends a message
Search for yourself
If you want
To find
Love
| Scheme | AA BX X XXC XC XD XX BX XXDX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (65%) |
| Metre | 111101 11111111 1101 111 10011101 111 11 1 1101 1001 01010 111 10111 01 11101 1010 1101 111 11 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 360 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
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