Analysis of Brookside



Hot sizzling burgers frying on the grill.
Summer heat mixed in the thrill.
The diner was cheap, but packed with the
usual crowd of kids trying to be part of
something other than themselves.
Girls wore cut off shorts, guys in their
muscle shirts.
Greasy fries dipped in ketchup, root beer
used as a chaser.
The sound of a 57 Chevy, chrome bumpers
and a cherry red paint job pulled up to
the curb.
These were the cool guys who cruised
Brookside.
Nights like these were endless in the
summer.
Funny how time races by.
You just grow up and it all goes away.


Scheme AABCDEFGHIJKLMBHNO
Poetic Form
Metre 11001010101 1011001 010111110 100111101111 1010101 11111101 101 101101011 11010 011010110 0010111111 01 1001111 1 11101000 10 1011101 1111011101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 536
Words 104
Sentences 10
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 436
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on February 18, 2010

Modified on March 05, 2023

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