Analysis of Generations
Through bolstered thoughts
and mirrored features we view
likenesses to observe,
Eyes of green, hazel, gray, and blue
capped by browns,
staying closed-- feeling cascading hair,
Viewing crafted nasal prominences and
cranial angles of ancestors unknown,
Yet seen in curling lashes and grown occlusive
in current faces, foreheads, and jawlines,
Straining to recreate remembrances of
culture and family and
Date anew faces remembered
in views gone by.
c. by Lena Smith Carter--Poetic Universalisms I, 2006.
Scheme | ABXBXX CXBAXCXD D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 0101011 100101 11110101 111 101100101 10101010000 101011001 1101010011 01010101 1011001001 1001000 10110010 0111 111011001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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