Analysis of Dried Apricot, or Friday Lunch



I nestled my teeth into the flesh of a dried apricot,
Squishy, not firm,
Sweet, succulent, favored fruit,
And I bit into a bone.
My thoughts were these:
How the sweetest things in life always have the bitterest of endings;
Why I always desire to be the person I once was, rather than the person I am now;
How the most promising of beginnings can yield the most horrifying conclusions;
How the normal course of events can become upended in an instant;
And of how I must now content myself with being a sad poet,
Noting these dismal observations, and shaping the language in a way that effectively communicates them,
And extracting for the world sublime truths from what seem like the blandest of occurrences.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKL
Poetic Form
Metre 11011010110110 1011 1100101 0110101 1101 1010101110100110 11101011010111101010111 10110010101101100010 1010110110110110 0111111011100110 10110010010010001101000101 001010101111110110100
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 696
Words 125
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 47
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 566
Words per stanza (avg) 125
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Submitted by jemanuelson on June 15, 2020

Modified on March 05, 2023

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