Analysis of Fence
I wish I had been born a white picket fence
spotless and clean
with triangle tops pointing cloudward, parallel
to passerbys
A gap between each board shows what lies beyond:
a lush green grass
thick and a bit wild, nurturing not only
grey spiny weeds
but a daffodil or three; souvenir for
each walkerby
My sturdy presence would surround a cream-bricked
home, warm and well
protective abode from the meak, sickly and
stoic as well
And if a passerby cared to glance, he would
catch on the edge
of his eye a figure closing a drape or
a bicycle,
red, that's propped against the brick of a cozy
warm and good home
Scheme | ABCADEFGHIDCJCKLHMFN |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (45%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11111101101 1001 110110110 11 01011111101 0111 10011100110 1101 101011011 11 11010101011 1101 01001101100 1011 01010011111 1101 11101010011 0100 11101011010 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 485 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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