Analysis of That House Down The Road



There's a house down the road,
Boys and girls in and out.
Mom with a heavy load,
Sometimes I hear her shout

They do not go to school
Always playing hookey
By acting like a fool
And getting some nooky.

One had a can of beer.
They are all underage.
When Deputies got near,
It brought about some rage.

I don't know what to say
And the reason how come,
Those kids are put away
And they're looking for mom.

A small black dog was theirs
For a very long time
And now nobody cares
About it, it's a crime.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EXEX FXFX GHGH
Poetic Form Quatrain  (60%)
Etheree  (25%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 101101 101001 110101 011101 111111 1101 110101 01011 110111 111100 110011 110111 111111 001011 111101 011011 011111 101011 0111 011101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 501
Words 115
Sentences 7
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 20

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Single mom with truant kids

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Written on March 08, 2024

Submitted by robertm.06281 on March 08, 2024

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Robert Joseph Mattingly

A Poet for forty years since 1983, a Substitute Teacher, B.S.Ed.. I built a building of poems beyond imagination, 64 inches tall. more…

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