Analysis of Robbing the Nest
I had survived how many summers? Five?
Six? 'til, self-taught, I learned at last
of terror that lurks in situations
which those I trust (myself included)
would swear offer only perfect safety...
My ball rolled under my Grandma's house
and I, well-guarded, scuttled after to retrieve it,
mindless of the tarry soil fleeced with fluffy,
small red feathers, newly molted by matrons:
hens that clucked contentment,
set upon their hidden egg troves.
Spying their nests, I thought to rob them
and so earn a Grandma's love for a city boy
unversed in country ways. Thinking, I acted,
reaching for a nest unoccupied,
half hid behind a house block.
I closed my soft, expectant hand
upon a wriggling creature coiled among the eggs,
drew back like lightning to watch
a brightly spotted snake slide off
into the farther, deeper darkness
amid a squall of squawks.
Emerging empty handed, terrified,
it wasn't Grandma's love I earned that day.
I have always since encountered similar brilliant colored
dangers whenever I have thought to grab,
for myself or others,unclaimed treasures
in strange places, in warmer or in cooler weathers.
Scheme | ABCDEFGECHCIJDKLMNOPQRKSTUVV |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110101 11111111 110110010 11111010 1110100110 11110111 0111010101011 10101011110 1110101110 111010 10111011 101111111 01101110101 1010110110 10101010 1101011 11110101 01011010101 1111011 01010111 010101010 010111 010101010 110111111 11110101001010 1001011111 111110 0110010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,092 |
Words | 186 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 28 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 893 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 185 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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