Analysis of Old School Across the Lane



Ominous edifice that glares back as I study
You, with your broken windows that are reminiscent of an old man's half rotten smile.
The ivy that scales your walls clings to your loneliness
As if trying to wring out of you some furtive dissertation.

Once home to priveleged youthful louts
Your face now droops with emptiness that cannot be regained.
Feral cats wander like kings and queens through your echoing corridors
While bats promenade at dusk alongside orbs and lightstreaks.

Delapidated stage, warped piano awaiting curtain call
The bravado of your masterpiece a bit discordant now
Hidden in your basement the mortal secret of a young man's demise
Perhaps the two of you will befriend each other.


Scheme XXAX XXXA XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1001001111110 11110101101011111101 0101111111100 111011111110010 1111101 11111100110101 10110110111100100 110111011101 111010010101 00101110010101 10011001010101101 010111101110
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 690
Words 117
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 48
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 192
Words per stanza (avg) 39
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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saffiregreek

Beverly Jordan here. I live in the mountains of NC and love to write my random nonsense down in the form of poetry. I'm the mother of 2 wonderful girls. Thanks for stopping by! more…

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