My Thought on Poetry



Poetry is horrible

Poetry is like a weight dragging you to the bottom of the ocean

Poetry is about nothing

Poetry is as important as a prisoner on death row

Poetry is as pointless as eating dirt

Poetry means nothing

Poetry is awful

About this poem

I wrote this to explain my thoughts on poetry

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Written on January 17, 2022

Submitted by masonj67 on February 15, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A X B X X B A
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 237
Words 49
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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