Analysis of Still Life
Trees swaying in the dark
Illumined by the full moon and stars.
Local color, background noises,
Music mixed with discordant voices.
Festivities coming to a close.
Images, sounds, fading in, fading out.
Daylight covets midnight’s doze
A cat’s whining, not unlike
An infant’s cry
Mingling with the
Whizz/pop of a firecracker
Jettisoned into
The nocturnal sky.
While grown-ups play
Adolescent rule holds sway.
Honking horns
Summon or warn,
“Watch out, take care”.
Cars idle in driveways
The occupants awaiting
Their ladies fair.
Grandmama’s and grand papas
Bidding grandchildren goodbye.
Teenaged boys bussing
Teenaged girls, feigning shy.
Exasperated, the budding Toulouse Lautrec
Tosses aside his beret and frock, a wreck.
He vacates his perch on the veranda.
Anything else he might have withstood,
But, not the last stanza
Of Ella Fitz intoning how
Her heart’s not made of wood.
For tonight, at least,
It’s nosh on finger food
With family and friends.
And once night ends
Bis with gouache and brushes.
Scheme | AXBCXXXXDEXXD FFXXGXHGCDHD AXEIEXI XXJJB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110001 010101101 1010110 101101010 010010101 1001100101 11011 0110101 1101 10010 1110100 10001 00101 1111 010111 101 1011 1111 11001 0100010 1101 10110 10101 1110 11101 0100010011 10011100101 111110010 10111101 110110 11010101 011111 10111 111101 110001 0111 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 986 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 12, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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