Analysis of Something Hard to Swallow



Adam’s apple stuck —
Meaty apple of discord…
Spare rib miscarriage!


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 10101 1010110 11010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 73
Words 11
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 11

About this poem

How a mythological tale can become an enduring bone of contention.

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Written on January 08, 2022

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 08, 2022

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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