Analysis of My Mother's Cooking



Each bite of this eggroll is a dying candle
Someday its taste will only be a memory


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 11111101010 11111010100
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 83
Words 17
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 67
Words per stanza (avg) 17

About this poem

Eating a freshly reheated eggroll homemade earlier in the week from my mother. It is night time and the eggroll's warmth inspires this spur of a thought.

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Written on June 12, 2022

Submitted by emgianne on June 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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