Analysis of A Martyr in Lace and Five and Dime Cologne
Grandmother taught us
tradition matters in that
it must be passed on from
one generation to another;
she showed us the old-world
ways of baking, healing,
story-telling and nurturing.
Grandmother's apron was a symbol
of her time, it gave her the status
of good-housekeeping woman,
elbows deep in flour, pies baked
from scratch, polishing the silver
to be put away in its mahogany box,
scrubbing and waxing floors till
her knuckles bled.
Grandmother was a martyr in lace
and five and dime cologne,
telling everyone she met that her
husband died many years ago,
leaving her with five small children
who grew up and did well.
Grandmother saved Saturdays for us,
as her grandchildren she would
treat us with a ride on the bus to
Downtown and a lunch where we ordered
club sandwiches and coffee with plenty
of cream----feeling very grown-up.
Grandmother is gone, but her ways
are not forgotten.
Scheme | AXXBXCC XADXBXXX XXBXDX AXXXXX XD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 0101001 111111 10101010 111011 111010 10100100 10101010 101110010 111010 1101011 11100010 111010101001 1001011 0101 10101001 010101 10101110 10110101 10011110 111011 10110011 101011 111011011 110011110 1100010110 11101011 1011101 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 862 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 6, 6, 2 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 142 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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