Analysis of off the vine
salt on watermelon
and her
she is left wondering
if the swallowed seed
is sprouting in her
hollowed-out gut
fertilized by the doubt
the worry of being
inadequate
and when it sprouts
when it blooms
grows ripe and ready
to be plucked, carved
into like a summer
jack-o-lantern
rotted fruit spills
onto the table
over the slicing hands
of the harvester
the salt sits unmoved
there isn’t enough
in the shaker
to cover up this mess
this wasted effort
save the seeds
Scheme | XA BXACXBC XXXXAX XXXA XXAXX X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
Metre | 11100 00 111100 10101 11000 1011 10101 010110 0100 0111 111 11010 1111 011010 1110 1011 10010 100101 10100 01101 1101 0010 110111 11010 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 475 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 7, 6, 4, 5, 1 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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