Analysis of Mrs Whalen's Place
Ain't much now.
The apples come full of worms.
Sucker limbs point skyward
through the tree house floor:
three warped boards and rusty nails
just above the second branch.
Lets climb the home made ladder
and sit among the blossoms
smelling yesterday.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 111 0101111 101110 10111 1110101 1010101 1101110 0101010 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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