Analysis of The picture on the wall



I was five.
Well, all that I could remember.
The more I think, the more my brain becomes permeated with cobwebs.
The 10 x 11 frame that is hung parallel to my bed that has eyes on me all hours of the day.
 The memories, the laughter, replaying in my head almost as if I'm sitting back sunken into a chair rewatching the whole thing.
Trying to uncap the sticky glue cap, but I was too weak to succeed,
But I knew everything would be ok as long as she was next to me.
We laughed for hours that echoed throughout the room.
As if time had no effect on us.
Paper falling to the floor as we cut monkeys, elephants and stars that filled the frame like a white dot on a black paper.
Paint spilling all over them, only adding the laughter and clumsiness that pictures couldn't express.
 Along with the bright pink letters that spelled out E.T.H.A.N.
To some, it is just a painting.
To me, it's a memory of passion.
 An appreciation I have for you.
That's always seeming to fulfill my room with your love,
 But to sum, it just remains a mess.
 A canvas meaningless.
Parallel to my bed.
 That's greets you at my door.
With the bright pink letter of E.T.H.A.N.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIBJKEKLMJINOK
Poetic Form
Metre 111 11111010 011101110110011 0111111011111111110101 01000100100111111101100101010011 10110101111111101 11110111111111111 111101100101 111110111 101010111110100011101101110110 1101101101001001001101001 0110111011110 11111010 1110100110 100101111 111010111111 111110101 010100 10111 111111 101110110
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 1,162
Words 246
Sentences 27
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 21
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 42
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 881
Words per stanza (avg) 218

About this poem

when i was 5 my mom and i loved doing crafts and recently she talked about how much she liked the painting so i wrote a poem for her showing how much i love her and how much the picture means to me

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Written on December 01, 2023

Submitted by ethanpadron14 on December 06, 2022

Modified on April 18, 2023

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