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 |
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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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