Analysis of For My Brother
Will Scarlet 1946 (NJ)
With a 10 cent memo pad
And a number 2 pencil
My Brother left me a stencil
A blueprint for his blues
And all I ever taught him
Was how to tie his shoes...
| Scheme | XXXA XA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 001010 11011010 01111 0111011 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 149 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
Among my Brother's personal effects after he passed.. A pencil and a memo pad...
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Written on October 09, 1991
Submitted on August 12, 2021
Modified by davidb on September 02, 2021
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