Analysis of All is in Order
All is in Order
My sticky notes, don’t quite adhere,
Not the shark of sharpness, that is clear.
Of forgoing order, I have no fear,
I’ll drop the mike and have a beer.
Scribbled in a scanty, squirrel-like manner,
Plans go awry before placed in my planner.
No ace with the copier, worse with the scanner,
For my swelling trash basket, you must wave a banner.
Start a tardy award, and I’ll sure win.
The meeting is over, before I get in.
The ball is dropping, no way to stop it,
It’s a spillage of non-diligence, no way to mop it.
For each great and neatly arranged scheme,
The upended results become a bad dream.
My time management clock has twisted hands.
My hourglass is jammed with shiftless sands.
I’ll make three trips to get a paper clip.
My chaotic mind is certain to slip.
Better find that reminder, to remember my binder.
Where is that daily agenda? Wish my mind was kinder.
Yet, why should order be in such demand,
When daily regiments are so undermanned.
Letters form words for sentences or verse,
It will be finalized for better or worse.
For each document well plotted,
There is a stain on a tie never spotted.
And for well-crafted notes, by a window ajar
An indifferent wind is never too far.
Scheme | A BBBB AAAA CCDD EEFF GGAA HHII JJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 11011101 101110111 1010101111 11010101 10001010110 11010110110 111010011010 1110110111010 1010010111 01011001110 0111011111 10101110011111 111010011 010101011 1110011101 110111101 1111110101 1010111011 10110101010110 11110010111110 1111010101 1101001110 1011110011 1111011011 11100110 11011011010 011101101001 1010111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,254 |
Words | 259 |
Sentences | 20 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
Since I have a tendency to be a bit disorganized, I felt compelled to write this poem. However, I also wanted to convey the message to not take a sense of order too seriously as indicated by the last paragraph.
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