You have cleverly identified the reason why I didn’t include the grade levels of poets in my post on Mitch Albom. Grade levels are apparently determined partly by sentence length. So I didn’t measure Albom against poets, because I thought the verse form might throw off the measuring system. For example, suppose a poet wrote a lot of lines of iambic trimeter. All those lines of three feet would read as three-word sentences if they used complete words and had a period at the end.

Glad you raised the point, because (in the interests of keeping my reviews as short as realistic) I don’t always deal with issues like this that were much on my mind while writing the post. And I appreciate having a chance to discuss them in these comments.

The above comment scored at a 10.2 grade level. However, my written observation doesn’t come close to being as inspired and well thought out as Dante’s works. You question if authors, who’s work falls below an arbitrary grade level, should receive the same sort of review as those writers who meet your arbitrary levels. My answer; read Virgil and then come to a conclusion.

Ahhh, So THAT’S why they earn six figure incomes!