Analysis of Ironed Out

Vans Esguerra 2000 (Mandaluyong)



I am still scrubbing the dark splash of wine
That you tipped over my white dress last night.
Silence is wrung, and hangs on the clothesline
And on stitched lips, but we’d rather close sight.
The fabric rips, and the sound crackles through,
And my cheeks flushed red with embarrassment.
Your calloused hands hovered mine, and I knew
That this white taffeta was ours to mend.
So we folded silence with our laughter,
Sorted past white and colored misgivings,
Smoothed the folds and  creases with our banter,
And hemmed and sewed all of our loose endings,
Because if wine had to stain me once more,
I’d go through it again just to be yours.


Scheme ABABCDCEFGFGHI
Poetic Form
Metre 1111001111 1111011111 101101101 0111111011 0101001101 0111110100 1101101011 11110011011 11101011010 1011010010 10101011010 01011110110 0111111111 1111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 640
Words 124
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 505
Words per stanza (avg) 115

About this poem

The prompt was: write about a chore you hate. I decided to turn it into love.

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Written on September 23, 2021

Submitted by vanessa.esguerra on August 23, 2022

Modified on March 18, 2023

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Vans Esguerra

Vans is a fresh graduate from the University of Asia and the Pacific, with the course of Bachelor of Arts in Political Economy. She has many roles in life: artist, debater, and mother of a cat to name a few. Through the power of iced coffee, she writes essays and poems that dissect love and life. more…

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