My poetry is much more complex than Leanne's

[rayheinrich]

I was using a text content analysis tool on my computer tonight to
get an idea of how to dumb down an instruction manual I was editing.
And, just for fun, I decided to analyze one of my poems (which tend to
have a simple vocabulary) and one of Leanne's (which, as a rule, have
a much larger one). So, of course, you might think you could guess the
results; I did.

But when I got the scores, my poem was rated MUCH more complex
than Leanne's. This just didn't make sense until I read the criteria
more carefully. Sure, it looked at word-length and word complexity;
but one thing it REALLY thought was important was sentence length.

Leanne's poem had an average sentence length of 14 words.
My poem had an average sentence length of 168 words (the entire poem).

So, if you want to write easy-to-understand poems, use lots of "."
For more complex poems, such as mine, don't use punctuation marks.

And, oddly enough, that's not a joke, it's true.
Ray