Reckoning: April 9, 2018

A Poet's Existence

Using numbers from the label cloud (below), this blog contains 686 poems I've authored, 624 (91%) rhyming¹ and 461 (67%) quatrains.² Further breakouts as to form and theme:

Form: 664 categorized as to form (unexplained difference of -22).

• quatrains (461)
• short (132)
• tercets³ (17)
• sentence⁴ (15)
• couplets (11)
• beat⁵ (8)
• limericks⁶ (8)
• logic⁷ (7)
• narrative⁸ (4)
• word⁹ (1)

Theme: 717 categorized as to theme (unexplained difference of +31).

• life¹⁰ (333)
• love (126)
• truth¹¹ (55)
• art (37)
• place (36)
• sexus¹² (35)
• lifestyle (23)
• heavens (23)
• Mars (22)
• wheels (19)
• choose life (8)

All above totals require further verification. More of my poems have appeared at a website (no longer viewable online).

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1. at least some part of the poem rhymes.
2. four-line poems.
3. three-line poems
4. poems with verses (generally starting) with repeating phrase [original form].
5. free form; no repeating pattern of rhythm (or rhyme).
6. some are sets of poems.
7. more content than form.
8. poems that tell a story.
9. poems constructed around a list of consistently rhyming words [original form].
10. general category.
11. political issues.
12. male/female issues.