Analysis of Zion National Park
My mom is right behind me
Covered in dirt, sweat, and sand
Like the rest of us, just waiting for the demand
Of hunger to take our hand.
We walk, single file, in front of the other
Watching the dust kick up from our boots’ leather
Together, we make our ascent
Knowing full well when we come back, we’ll be spent.
The sky turns to a musky red
And all of my bones feel like they’ve turned led
But still, our small family of four, we keep going
And I wonder how my sore legs keep rolling
It’s just one bend, just one corner
But when we round it, the world feels colder
I understand now what had to be done
Because looking out, I see all of the sun
“Zion National Park; peaks” one sign reads
And another to carefully watch for your toddlers
And our family cheers in silence, our smiles like little seeds
Growing something in each other.
We turn our heads to the silent arches
The angels of stone, and the spaces that part them
The sun sets on them, shifting each and every rock
And finally, we rest, watching the light hide behind the world I had dreamt.
Scheme | XAAA BBCC DDEE BBFF GXGB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1111011 1001101 101111101001 11011101 11101011010 100111110110 010111001 10111111111 01110101 0111111111 11101100111110 01101111110 11111110 1111101110 101111111 01101111101 1010011111 0010110011110 01010010101011101 10100110 11101101010 010110010111 0111110101001 010011100110101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,066 |
Words | 211 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
About this poem
This is a narrative poem about me and my family's trip to Zion National Park.
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Written on April 26, 2022
Submitted by mollydhwang on April 26, 2022
Modified on March 10, 2023
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