Analysis of Fag Time
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 |
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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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