Analysis of mom



I do not remember you.
Maybe we where two skeletons
living in an empty room
with the most beautiful hair
and never brushing it and it grew two feet a day
With your fingers like twigs
we cut it every morning and every night
it lined the floor of our room, wild and soft
 black and red ropes
And maybe, I lived inside you, peaking out behind your ribs
feet curled on your pelvis
because I was small,
and you where always big.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLM
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101 10111100 1001101 1011001 0101010111101 111011 1111001001001 11011101101 1011 010110111010111 111110 01111 01111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 411
Words 83
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 334
Words per stanza (avg) 83
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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