Analysis of Family Album
Each time I open the tattered book
I find myself drawn in
by the angle of my father's chin
and his father's before him
and how my brother's small head
even then turned toward the window
in a way that made me know
he longed to go, to leave
that set of jaw, that olive skin
that name he shared with generations.
I'm sure I puzzled even then
about what every turn of face might mean
and just what would become of him
when age had closed the shutter
and the only place to look
was in.
Scheme | ABBCDEEFBGHICJAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100101 11110 101011101 0110011 0111011 101101010 0011111 111111 11111101 11111010 11110101 01110011111 01110111 1111010 0010111 10 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 465 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 376 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 97 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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