Analysis of Discomfort
I had to look it up
What a strange piece of history--
Hair shirt.
Once I knew the meaning
my mind would not stop racing
Whose hair?
Is my hair shirt woven from?
My first thought is my husband
but it is almost too easy
to blame him for my itchy life
Next I think of my mother
perhaps it is woven
from her greybrownblonde hair
but in truth I know
she tried her best to relieve me
of any itch I ever had
Digging deeper, the more obvious choice
would be my father.
Intentional or not,
he has made my life very itchy
but I am just not sure
that my hair shirt is woven from his hair.
Besides,
he does not have much left.
Eventually it becomes obvious
but I am not sure that I like the answer.
I realize in a calm panic.
My hair shirt is woven from my hair.
My own itchy hair.
Scheme | XAXBB CX XAX DXCXAX XDXA XCXX XD XCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 10111100 11 111010 1111110 11 1111101 1111110 1111110 11111101 1111110 011110 1011 10111 11011011 11011101 1010011001 11110 010011 111111010 111111 1111110111 01 111111 01000101100 11111111010 11000110 111110111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 741 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 2, 3, 6, 4, 4, 2, 3 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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