Analysis of Lordess of the Porch
Watching her jump off the porch
into the great green unknown
takes me back to when I used to do the same.
The porch and I were younger then.
Dad poured the cement,
not letting me put my hand prints
in the steps.
I tried to add some of myself to my porch
when his back was turned away.
He saw what I did and smoothed it out;
mad as hell, he chased me away.
The porch and I have both grown old,
the top step crumbled away.
Now there's a new kid on the porch.
I heard my granddaughter say,
"You need permission from me
to sit down here.
I am the lordess of this porch!"
Scheme | AXX XXXXABXB XBABXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001101 0101101 11111111101 01010101 11001 11011111 001 1111111111 1111101 111110111 11111101 01011111 0111001 11011101 111101 1101011 1111 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 549 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 8, 7 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 144 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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