Analysis of Love on the Farm
Mucking out and milking, we are curds in the churn.
Our house is a blooming belly brimful and snuffling,
feet planted in the green rubber of muddy dawns.
A fox rapturously cherished a hen last night;
brown feathers speckled red fly now on the wind.
The patchy cat watches; it knows that we share
a dream-guzzling tractor, with its rhythmus purr.
The tangy beasts are fed, the turkey and goose fatted.
Our meat squeals in the marketplace and struts to auction.
What is not eaten, wallows.
We live thigh deep, grub and plow;
partake in the love of it.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010111001 101101010101 110001101101 011100111 11010111101 01011011111 01100101111 01111010011 1011001001110 111101 1111101 0100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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