Analysis of The Greenhouse
Earth grumbles level
Footings house and bed,
Brick and glass thread his needle,
Arming a man for aisles of fruit.
For ninety days he watered each Vine,
Mapping their vigour, keeping his Plants ...
Summer bubbled against his back
Making bees lethargic, legion Ants peppered lawns ...
He cut the leaves and branches Away,
One blistered day mid August
Dawdling fruits renewed armour,
Greens yellowed chasing reds
His hands tingled as warmed by Straw,
Tomato brimmed,
Tears climbing down his cheeks ...
Scheme | ABACDEFGHIJKLMN |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11010 10101 1011110 10011111 110111011 10111011 10100111 101010101101 110101001 1101110 1010110 11101 1111111 011 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 521 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 398 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
About this poem
It is about my deceased dad trying to build a greenhouse to grow tomatoes ....
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