Analysis of My Grandmother’s Lawn
Those swans in your lawn
Do they ever swim?
Because they sit by your front steps
wearing old grass stains on their breasts
and their eyes carry elegance
in their masked reckoning.
Your lawn
is my littered mind
and your lawn
is your gnawing heart
sinking in towering dandelion grass.
I remember that black maine coon—
she wore a beautiful sable coat
and stunned me with emery irises.
She rested beneath the shade
of my grandmother’s fragrant rhododendrons
and before they took her away
the beldam lost her mind.
And she said,
so long sad world
Scheme | AX BXXXACAXXXXXXBXC XX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 11011 11101 01111111 10111111 01110100 011100 11 11101 011 11101 1001001001 10101111 110100101 0111100100 1100101 1110101 00111001 01101 011 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 16, 2 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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