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arielarenaI have no idea what the poetic meter for the following is. I'm totally fucked on this poem assignment.
One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight,
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other,
One was blind and the other couldn't, see
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"
A paralysed donkey passing by,
Kicked the blind man in the eye,
Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came and shot the two dead boys,
If you don't believe this story’s true,
Ask the blind man he saw it too!
HELP! I can't tell what foot it is in, where the accents are, anything. I'm trying. I just keep reading it differently, which does not help when attempting to find the meter. Once I figure that out I can worry about writing my actual poem.
One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead boys got up to fight,
Back to back they faced each other,
Drew their swords and shot each other,
One was blind and the other couldn't, see
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"
A paralysed donkey passing by,
Kicked the blind man in the eye,
Knocked him through a nine inch wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all,
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came and shot the two dead boys,
If you don't believe this story’s true,
Ask the blind man he saw it too!
HELP! I can't tell what foot it is in, where the accents are, anything. I'm trying. I just keep reading it differently, which does not help when attempting to find the meter. Once I figure that out I can worry about writing my actual poem.
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Date: 2005-10-05 07:33 am (UTC)