Analysis of The Shaded Tree



The Shaded Tree

There's nothing like a warm summer day
 To picnic under a shaded tree, a gentle breeze
 To cool your mood as you gobble down food
 Swatting at flies from your fries and pies, make you

Want to close your eyes, and conjure up a beehive
 No repellant to ward off the any invasion trekking on
 The picnic basket, carrying bits of food as they steadily
 Form a line gathering up the chunks of rind, and making

There way to that ant hill mine, you close your eye's
 And take a deep breath of nature's fragrant air
 Wishing you were in Kriti Crete or on a cruise ship
 Sailing the islands, and listening to the music drumming

In your ears, no care of fear as you swat the flies and stomp
 The ants as they steadily approach the spot you enjoyed
 For a little while, neither glance skyward to see the clouds
 Float by, nor nap under the shaded tree

As you pack up the picnic basket, and shake out the crumbs
 On the blanket, you glance up at the leaves on the tree branches
 With a thought to come back another day to have
 A picnic and sit under a big shaded tree


Scheme A XXXX XXAB XXXB XXXA XXXA
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 110101101 111001010101 1111111011 1111110111 11111010101 11111010010101 011010011111100 10110010111010 11111111111 01011110101 101001111011 100100100101010 01111111110101 01111000101101 10101101101101 1111100101 1111011001101 101011110110110 101111010111 01011001101
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,071
Words 209
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 21
Letters per line (avg) 40
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted by hitalot on June 12, 2017

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:02 min read
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Mario William vitale

Mario William Vitale is a twentieth century poet. He has developed a style of free verse. Has written over one thousand poems. more…

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