Analysis of For My Younger Sister
Nine pounds of you burst to us
Like hot cherries. Screeching
Eagles and cat fight fragments
Leap and fleck with you, not like
Mist but less and more there.
Bedouins in a rain of mercury
Know this pelt that mantis
Prayers can't quiet. We submit
And tread through your snapdragons; I trip,
And you're flowing like a second hand
To glide over every moment, or
With palm upwards, to rub the
Soft underbelly of our every day.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLM |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 111010 1001110 1011111 111011 1000011100 111110 1110101 01111011 011010101 1110100101 1110110 11001101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 408 |
| Words | 77 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 333 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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