Analysis of Briefcase



Your briefcase sits
beside the water can
(long dry memento of ivy,
coleus, and more exotic plants,
which perished under your patient,
watchful care.)
Not good at growing greenery,
On paper you construct
Imaginary jungles, weep watery tears
When they wither
Beneath your critical eye.


Scheme ABCDEFCGHIJ
Poetic Form
Metre 111 010101 11010110 100010101 11010110 101 11110100 110101 01001011001 1110 0111001
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 273
Words 46
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 229
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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L. Larry Amadore

A word lover who enjoys beautiful poetry of all genres and responds with admiration to fresh and felicitous phrases. [Retired manufacturing/production control mgr./marketing manager/financial analyst. USAF veteran; lived in US, Mexico, Germany, Turkey.] more…

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