Analysis of Impressions




I can remember as a child
thinking then, snows were very deep,
that train trestles could touch the sky
and dad stood at least ten feet high.
With little legs standing in snow
Like twin stalagmites stacked and cold
certainly seemed deep, in my eyes.
Same could be said for train trestles;
Standing beneath them looking up,
It wasn't hard to imagine
them touching that enormous sky.
Today standing somewhat stooped,
my octogenarian dad
remains that giant in my eyes.


Scheme ABCCDEFFGHCIJF
Poetic Form
Metre 11010101 10110101 1111101 01111111 11011001 111101 10011011 1111111 10011101 11011010 11010101 0110111 1001001 01110011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 451
Words 80
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 374
Words per stanza (avg) 80
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Submitted on August 19, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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