Analysis of Something Newsworthy!



Like a new-born babe
Is a Fed-Ex delivery
Sent home for gazing.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 10111 10110100 11110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 64
Words 13
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 49
Words per stanza (avg) 12

About this poem

A New-born Baby and a Fed-Ex Delivery: Both are packages, shipment for tracking, with great expectation, cautiously handled, carefully examined , with much excitement, prayerfully joyful.

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Written on December 28, 2020

Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 28, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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