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.


Scheme XXA BXXX BXAXX
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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Submitted by JohnDiamond on February 16, 2021

Modified on March 12, 2023

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