Analysis of More on my mother … Cecilia Szymanowski



A real trooper
when my dad died she went back to work.
The girls that do and the girls that don’t
she was the latter.
The thing she was most proud of
was WWII .. the war effort.
Not Rosie the Riveter
but Cecilia the Welder.


Scheme ABCADCAA
Poetic Form
Metre 0110 111111111 011100111 11010 0111111 110110 11001 1010010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 225
Words 48
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 171
Words per stanza (avg) 46
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Written on October 17, 2023

Submitted by raetally on October 17, 2023

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