When looking at deformance with the Mad Libs version of “This is Just to Say,” I learned something aside from the fact that some really funny poems can come out of the random word generator. I noticed that no matter what you changed the words to, the meaning of the poem stayed the same. When I was talking to Laura about what we learned from using the website, no matter what words replaced “plums,” “eaten,” or “icebox,” the first stanza always stated what the speaker has done. This is because of the words “I have.” In the second stanza, even when the words “saving” and “breakfast” were changed, the speaker was still always telling us what the person was going to do with the object. Then in the last stanza, even after replacing “forgive,” “delicious,” sweet,” and “cold,” the meaning of the stanza does not change and the speaker is always asking the person to do something and describing the object. The meaning of the poem stays even if it makes no sense. I used this tool to examine “The Red Wheelbarrow” and I didn’t really learn much about it but I’m sure I could if I looked more into it or, perhaps, changed different words. I think deformance was helpful with “This is Just to Say” because it shows that although we thought this poem was so random, when comparing it to actually random words in the poem, it is not as random as we thought after all. To be honest, I don’t think it helped much with analysis of the poem and I don’t think I would use it again but it was fun. I would like to do more mad libs with other forms of literature because I think it could be funny but I don’t think it helps with examination.