Analysis of The Shitpot Poet

Bill Strohecker 1970 (Montgomeryville)



He hides in here to sit and think
What he does, it starts to stink
He does his work with a pen
Yes, the shitpot poet strikes again.


Scheme AABB
Poetic Form Balliol rhyme 
Quatrain 
Metre 11011101 1111111 1111101 10110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 128
Words 28
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 101
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on October 16, 2021

Submitted by mrbill0224 on October 16, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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