Analysis of Fag Time

Adi



To see the time
in red digital numbers
I pressed the button
on my new digital watch.

I drew on my cigarette
and remembered the joke:
What do you say to a one armed man
if you want to know the time?
"Got the time on ya cock?"
Then I got caught.

Teacher said,
"if you were supposed to smoke
you'd have a chimney on your head!"
as he knuckled each syllable on my head.
Up in his office I held out my palm
and he swished it with a cane.


Scheme AXXX XBXAXX CBCCXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 0110010 11010 1111001 111101 001001 111110111 1111101 101111 1111 101 1100111 11010111 11101100111 1011011111 0111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 425
Words 95
Sentences 7
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 6
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 30
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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