Analysis of Sour Milk
A mundane cup of tea
Yet as the milk splashes into the cup
What is this strange dance?
Of acidic clumps of fat
We never had the milk go off!
When you were here
Now the milk sours in the fridge
| Scheme | ABCDEFG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 001111 1101100101 11111 1010111 11010111 1101 10110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 194 |
| Words | 45 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
About this poem
This is how your family changes after your children start to leave The subtle realisation that you are no longer a nuclear family.
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