Analysis of Summer Vacation



To all children

They came to visit in July as we had planned.
 The younger aged six, the other a Parelli fan,
 Started most days by playing with a black kitten
 While I prepared good breakfast in the kitchen.
They stayed nine days mostly joyful with a few little cries.
We shopped for bread, pastry, a bathing suit and Crocodiles.
 Today with their grandpa they returned home.
 Sudden sadness fills me as I am left alone.
 Maybe tomorrow I'll receive some news
 To tell me all is well and chase away my blues.


Scheme A XXAAXXXXBB
Poetic Form
Metre 1110 11110011111 01011010011 101111010110 11011100010 11111010101101 1111100101010 011111011 101011111101 100110111 111111010111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 499
Words 93
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 10
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 199
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 03, 2023

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