Analysis of Juliet's what's in a name?
Brian S. Clifton 1975 (Ohio)
Juliet's what's in a name?
Is a rose not still a rose
if called by any other name?
Would the woody stems
not still be adorned
by sharp prickle thorns
pricking the fingertips
of pluckers and pickers
and other such predators?
What of the fragrance,
would it not be the same?
Scents of musk
admixt sweetness
with a hint of earthy spice
desirous of perfume
or do aromatics change
from name to name?
Maybe upon the flower
a moniker does lay claim?
Blooms of rosa petals
no longer velvet textured
nor even collected
never made into a bouquet
so artfully arranged?
Or would such notions
be clearly misnomers
disregarded or remade?
A namesake's shape
taken from which it's made,
placed on tissue paper
safe with Baby's Breath
knowing one's nature
by nomenclature
is not so easily changed.
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Metre | 11001 1011101 11110101 10101 11101 1111 1010 11010 0101100 11010 111101 111 110 1011101 010101 1111 1111 1001010 0100111 111010 1101010 110010 10101001 110001 11110 1101 010101 011 101111 11110 11101 10110 1100 1111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 791 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 8, 7, 10 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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