Analysis of Tonka
You complain of pits and
wrinkles and dark marks
and shadows of old age.
You say that the shadows
of your life in the world
will haunt you for your
remaining days.
You are wrong.
You, my friend, are a Tonka bean.
Your outer skin is wrinkled
and darkened, but that’s just part
of the growth, part of the journey.
Inside, you’re a rich, chocolatey
brown, with flavors that remind me
of vanilla, cinnamon,
saffron, almond and cloves.
You are so sweet and full-bodied
and well-rounded and all I am trying
to say is that You’re so much more
that the skin on the outside of your body.
You have so much experience
and wisdom to offer the
world.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLALMNOPFLQRE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101110 10011 01111 11101 111001 11111 0101 111 11110101 1101110 0101111 10111010 011011 11101011 1010100 101001 11110110 0110011110 11111111 10110111110 11110100 0101100 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 643 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 496 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
About this poem
Commodity Series.
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Written on 2018
Submitted by lifeasalyric on November 04, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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