Analysis of A Place Just Right
The Greyhound reels over creaking axles.
Northern Kentucky puts on weight in summer,
a green mélange thickens,
yet inside our trundling tube,
joints rattle,
gears burn through paunch and muscle.
We lurch over a crest down into a holler
An old Shaker Hymn booms across the radio:
'When we find ourselves in a place just right
Twill be in the valley of love and light.'
I have often longed to be 'in a place just right,'
to be at ease in these bucking bones,
even when breathing this smother
of body odor and diesel.
Then we dip down into a valley.
At a wooden store advertising cold beers
we stop.
Is this the right place? I ask.
It’s as close as we get, says the driver.
Scheme | XAXXBB AXCC CXAB XXXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101010 10010111010 011110 1011011 110 1111010 111001101010 11101101010 11100100111 1100101101 111011100111 111101101 10110110 11010010 111101010 1010110011 11 1101111 1111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 131 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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