Analysis of Boxing Day



Boxing Day,
Was such a terrible day,
Everyone stopped drinking there tea on their trays,
I have never known such a silence,
I have never felt my heartbeat,
Pound so loud,
Dad was always so porud,
Of his father,
I would of rather spent Boxing Day,
Alone,
At least it would of washed away,
This horrible tone,
Today my Grandad pasted away,
I wished it wasn't today,
Of all days,
As this day,
Was my Dad's,
Favourite day,
Of all,
With all his sport and all,
It was like Christmas had come,
All at once.

At the hearing of this news,
The next couple of days,
Everyone kept themselves,
To themselves,
And everything,
Had changed,
And nothing will be the same again,
Boxing day will now always be the day when my Grandad pasted away.


Scheme AABCXXAXADADAABAXAEEXC XBFFXXXA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (33%)
Etheree  (23%)
Metre 101 1101001 1011011111 111011010 1110111 111 11111 1110 111101101 01 11111101 11001 01111001 1111001 111 111 111 11 11 111101 1111011 111 1010111 011011 10101 101 010 11 010110101 1011111011111001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 697
Words 135
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 22, 8
Lines Amount 30
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 280
Words per stanza (avg) 68
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Submitted on July 22, 2012

Modified on April 26, 2023

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