Analysis of Pockets
We're worn from worry-
Salvation Army serves us dinner,
we tried to get by, but we're thinner.
It's our family's first time here,
my parent's eyes are red from tears.
When the cost of living became
so high,
I heard my parents cry.
We're all filing in, quiet, as the
soup kitchen volunteers gently
smile,
we haven't smiled in a while.
There's many other children
here,
I wish there was more cheer.
I just saw two siblings of
another family,
put biscuits in their pockets-
hoping no one would see.
I understand that now,
I really do,
I just put biscuits in my
pockets too. ~
Scheme | ABBCXXDD XAEEXCXXAXAXFDF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 010101110 111111110 110100111 11011111 10111001 11 111101 111001010 1100110 1 1101001 1101010 1 111111 1111101 010100 1100110 101111 10111 1101 1111001 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 574 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 15 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 219 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
About this poem
This poem is about hunger in the U.S.
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