Analysis of A Fool's Errand



Life’s meandering journey …
mapped by a fool
Clairvoyant foretelling
the dilettante’s tool
Around every corner
the road twists and bends
A marble or diamond
— but choice to portend

(Dreamsleep: February, 2024)


Scheme ABXBXXXX A
Poetic Form
Metre 1010010 1101 010010 011 0110010 01101 010110 11101 1100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 220
Words 35
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on February 27, 2024

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