Analysis of I CLEANED MY HOUSE TODAY



I dusted off my soul
polished my heart
vacuumed my brain
opened the windows of my thoughts
threw out long expired garbage
removed all boundaries from my spiritual life
then looked into my shiny mirror and said,
"Thank you God"


Scheme ABCDEFGH
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 1011 1011 10010111 1110110 0111001110001 11011101001 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 226
Words 41
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 184
Words per stanza (avg) 40

About this poem

words came to me unexpectedly while enjoying a quiet moment sitting in a parking lot waiting on a friend

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Written on 2001

Submitted by KAKWITHASMILE on January 09, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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