Analysis of Decorating Advice
A house needs a sleepy rocker
with pendulum momentum.
Curved bows of feet
should graze the wall sometimes, dent the carpet,
and bear weight
to let the neighbors know they're not alone.
Upstairs, someone else marks time in socks.
Singly, with a book or infinity thoughts
too long for pillows.
Or jointly, with a child too sweet
to untangle.
His fingers in the weave --
the room through hexagons --
his chin on a wide shoulder
against a buzzy, fuzzy jaw.
The afterglow of a rhyme told to the
first born son.
Scheme | AXBXXXCXXBXXCAX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101010 1100010 1111 1101011010 011 1101011101 01111101 10101101001 11110 11010111 1010 110001 0111 1110110 01010101 010101110 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 2 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 198 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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