Analysis of If Milk Cartons Could Talk.



If Milk Cartons Could Talk.

If you seek to find lost mind,
Hold the light and look behind,
If it still remains away from you,
Go to the closet and look in a shoe,
Not there either a mind of plunders,
Where must be is what one wonders,
Perhaps it’s been gone since the other day,
Look under each rock that lie in the way,
Remaining lost while still so near,
Up to thin walls do press your ear,
Sound of none with light so strong,
Climb high the rope that reins so long,
Compass spins and eyes then shake,
A team of many this search should take,
Finding false and coming dry,
Turn your eyes toward the sky,
Still no mind can be found,
Tilt your head and search the ground,
Out of turn and time so lost,
Forget the mind and then the cost,
Finding mind most never does,
Perhaps your mind then never was.

By: Christopher Eff


Scheme X AABBCCDDXXEEFFGGHHXXCC X
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 1111111 1010101 111010111 1101001001 11100111 11111110 0111110101 1101111001 01011111 11111111 1111111 11011111 1010111 011101111 1010101 1110101 111111 1110101 1110111 01010101 1011101 01111101 11001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 823
Words 185
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 22, 1
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 212
Words per stanza (avg) 53

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Lost. Blissful and mad.

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Written on 2012

Submitted by sirstophe on February 18, 2024

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