Analysis of Blue Bowl
I remember how I loved new bread,
The smell of butter in the crust.
There was a bowl of blue I had
For summer days.
Sometimes at sunset I sat on the back steps
And held the bowl balanced upon my knees,
And dipped as a dreamer does
The rounded spoon into the white milk,
Lifting the little islands of the bread.
The honeysuckle and the phlox
Were sweet upon the air,
And fireflies lifted uncertain stars
Into the night.
I wonder why this memory lingers so -
The bowl was broken years ago.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHADIJKLL |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
Metre | 101011111 01110001 11011111 1101 0111111011 0101100111 0110101 010101011 1001010101 0100001 010101 010100101 0101 11011100101 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 501 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 384 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 94 |
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