Analysis of Moonlight Ranch
On this ranch there were no whinnying horses neighing
the night away on a cool desert evening.
Or a Red Angus mother mooing imploringly for her
new-born baby bull to hurry up and join the herd.
Or fiddle-footed chickens clucking spasmodically
in anticipation of their morning bucket of
whole kernel corn long past due.
Or transient ranch hands, edgy drifters signed on
for a week's pay and nothing beyond.
Not even a chuckwagon cook slinging pewter plates of beans
and pouring cups of coarse coffee from a graniteware pot.
On this ranch, outside Carson City, Nevada, inside a
moonlit doublewide, there were only prostitutes
and the loss of my virginity.
Scheme | AA XX BXX XX XX XXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011101 01011011010 10110101110 1110111010101 1101010100100 000101110101 1101111 11011101011 101101001 1100111010111 010111101011 111111010010010 11101010 001110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 671 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
Always thought a doublewide in the middle of the desert was an interesting venue to be deflowered.
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