Analysis of Saturday Morning in a Classmate's Garage
My mother and I watched my sister
spring ahead, giggling as she ran up
the paved driveway like a puppy recognizing
the sound of its owner scraping leftovers
onto the ground. She pounced playfully
on Barbie and Skipper while mother and I,
a pair of vultures, swooped.
I preyed on books, and Mother tore into
masses of worn-through blue jeans and faded
T-shirts, searching through carcasses
piled high on card tables and concrete.
At the pay table, I stood watching my feet
shuffle as a familiar woman and girl pulled
tiny squares of masking tape
from our pickings, all the while making
small talk with my mother and me,
pretending the following day
we wouldn't be wearing their leftovers,
their names branding our bodies
like cattle.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKKLMCENDOP |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 110011110 1011001111 0111010100 0111101010 100111100 11001011001 011101 1111010101 1011111010 11101100 111110001 10110111011 101001010011 1011101 1101010110 11111001 01001001 110110110 11101010 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 713 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 591 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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