Analysis of Letting Go of the Eighties
Letting Go Of The Eighties
It’s time!
to finally let them go —
Shoulder pads,
bangles,
and bows
Puffy sleeves,
baby-blue dress
Big hair clips,
high-tops,
and wedge
Walkman ear buds,
high-waist jeans,
Jelly shoes —
bright pink, lime green
It’s time!
to finally —toss them out!!!!!
all that I can live without…
Silly me
to keep
that fluff —
It’s crowding out
my nineties stuff!
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|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1011010 11 1100111 101 10 01 101 1011 111 11 01 111 111 101 1111 11 1100111 1111101 101 11 11 1101 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 452 |
| Words | 78 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 22 |
| Lines Amount | 23 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
One day, cleaning out my closet of stuff that I should’ve thrown out decades ago, this silly poem came to me.
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