Analysis of My Pen
Michael Pardue 1979
This pen is my sentence
Ink of my time.
Try to spell it out
with a little rhythm,and rhyme.
Knowing the cause
having...with no place to pause.
With this pen
I can make the sun shine,or
the clouds to roll in.
Can you not hear?The rain on the tin.
Minutes are passing
I hear no laughing
In this cage
like a dog
which has no master.
Look at that tree in the pasture.
I can make this
go a little faster, or slow it down
with the water dripping down the drain.
Okay this is getting a little plain.
The one I left crying
Making me feel as I'm dying.
How can I make the sky blue
When all I see is gray.
I wish I could write this all new
like the first day of May.
So with my pen
I'll write my poem.
Give me wings so I can soar.
So at the end you will see.
That in this "Pen"i am free.
Scheme | ABCBDDEFGGHHIJFFKLMMHHNFNOEPFQF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 1111 11111 101011 1001 11111 111 111011 01110 11111101 10110 11110 011 101 11110 11110010 1111 1010101111 101010101 111100101 011110 10111110 1111011 111111 11111111 101111 1111 11110 1111111 1101111 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 783 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 31 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 586 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 165 |
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Written on May 12, 2015
Submitted by champion_shelley33 on February 07, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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