Analysis of Seat Belts Please
The boarding was seamless
Combination of business and holiday folk
Three and half hours to Charleston S C.
The business guys orderly and routine
The holidayers rushed and thinking
They have forgotten something.
Canned music is heard.
Then the Captain’s voice.
Welcoming, giving confidence
Briefly addressing the weather
And intended altitude.
Probably fifty-ish in years.
I am fairly close to jet engine.
Window seat.
The tarmac starts to roll.
Bum is feeling the shake
Of this large can of
Homo sapiens.
Lady beside me registers awkwardness.
Going to see her sister in
Moncks Corner.
Been a couple of years.
Hugs are better than phones.
With the donning of earphones
She is lost to me.
Six year old ahead of me
Tells Mom about the likely
Sequence of events.
Must be a jet-plane buff.
So young, reminding me
Of our Jordan, now piloting 787’s.
Remote, exotic places, worldwide.
(New Delhi, Geneva, Paris, Tokyo
Capetown, Tel Aviv, Athens, Rio etc.)
Tells me much safer than
My morning drive to the factory.
Acceleration now and
Angle of ascent viewed
Through bird’s eye glass.
Horizon saying, Bye now.
One parking lot reduced to dots.
Gives me a buzz every time.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010110 0101100101 1011011011 0101100001 011010 1101010 11011 10101 10010100 10010010 001010 10010101 111011110 101 01111 111001 11111 10100 10011100100 10110100 110 101011 111011 101011 11111 1110111 1101010 10101 110111 110101 1101011001 010101011 1100101010 11011010100 111101 110110100 01010 101011 1111 0101011 11010111 11011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,167 |
Words | 220 |
Sentences | 25 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 42 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 922 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 196 |
About this poem
Hope the overhead screen does NOT SHOW the movie Plane featuring Gerard Butler. A takeoff exciting here recorded.
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Written on March 14, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 14, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on March 14, 2023
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