Analysis of Mary's Trapeze



Mary can't catch her death from tornadoes
As she sits on the cage with a swing of her legs
They whisper upstairs for a change in the weather
While young Daddy Bling lights a fire to caress.

And you, yes you, would you take a bullet
For the son of a son that you haven't yet met?
Will you rush the high ground, the rest of us haven't,
And carry the torch from the land of bad guesses?

I can't lend a hand, though I'd really love to
The only one here with a family to keep,
We'll post you a tweet and return to the jungle
As Mary throws shades from her dazzling trapeze.

Look there in the dark at the damp cardboard castles
You trample your promise and he'll break your teeth,
It's lost in the thrum of a million heart lines
Mary threads cable, she's got no crowd to please.

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Scheme AXXX XXXX XXXB XXXB A
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011010 111101101101 110011010010 111011010101 0111111010 101101111011 111011011110 010011011110 11101111011 010111010011 111010011010 110111010001 11001101110 11011001111 11001101011 10110111111 11111101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 829
Words 160
Sentences 8
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 130
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on March 27, 2015

Modified on March 14, 2023

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PV Harrington

Paris-based British writer whose 'Once There Were Moonflowers' chapbook was on the Amazon poetry anthology bestsellers list in 2013. more…

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