Analysis of Hot San Joaquin Summers



Hot San Joaquin summers, long passed
days blissfully warm, extending into night.
Oh! summer,what wonders you'd bring;
Muscat grapes, red watermelons off the vine,
sunflowers that grew up over our heads,
smiling down into our little grinning faces.
yellow poppies glistening on the hillsides.
Wild flowers bent gleefully in the breeze.
The blistering sand baked our naked feet,
and turned our brown bodies even blacker.
In summer's heat, we played , while
heat waves mystical pranced in the air,
but mulberry and peach trees gave shade,
and we sucked fruits so sweet.
Trails of nectar ran down our arms.
As children, we thought your stay too short
You eased into fall, with amber leaves.
Winter brought her bitter cold.
Spring came offering wild flowers,
but summer, your days were best of all.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMINOPQRS
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1111011 11001010011 111011 1011100101 1011110101 1010110101010 1010100101 1101100001 01001110101 01101101010 0101111 111001001 11001111 011111 111011101 110111111 110111101 1010101 11100110 110110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 774
Words 132
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 633
Words per stanza (avg) 132
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Submitted on February 17, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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