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
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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Written on August 07, 2021

Submitted by dt233630 on August 11, 2023

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