Analysis of Through the Looking Class
She’s never finished.
She’s never done.
Tears ,cries, and alarms,
She asks for help, and no one hears it.
Dishes, laundry, and dinner.
Wiping ,washing, and cleaning,
Don’t forget work!
Keys, purse, phone,
She can’t be late for work.
Her twenty minute coffee is her only salvation.
Looking through the mirror she sees.
New wrinkles, new creases, and new grey hair.
She looks back and remembers a girl,
Full of hope, dreams, and passion.
Did she forget?
A dream simply deferred ?
Or simply a dream changed?
Looking through the mirror she sees,
The little girl always wanted to be a wife and a mom.
Did she see the big house and white picket fence?
Would she trade this dream for a different one?
She finishes her coffee and sees,
Time and dreams change and that's okay.
Off in the distance she hears, The pitter patter of tiny feet approaching
Scheme | abcdefghgbIjkblmnIopbiqf |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 1101 11001 111101111 1010010 1010010 1011 111 111111 01010101010010 10101011 1101100111 111001001 1111010 1101 011001 110011 10101011 01011101101001 11101101101 11111101001 110001001 1011011 100101101101101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 870 |
Words | 172 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 650 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 150 |
About this poem
Daily life chaos
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