Analysis of Barbwire
My brother comes home
and I will have to remember knots;
half-hitches and cloves and
complicated ones from boy scout manuals,
their uses and their placement,
how to deconstruct them in the dark.
| Scheme | XXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 011110101 110010 1001111100 1100110 11011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 189 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
About this poem
Trigger warning: abuse, sexual assault Published in Free From Monsters: Poetry by Survivors of Abuse. Western Oregon University Printing.2019
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