Analysis of Sunday Morning In January
Only one woman goes to church -
her kids declare they don’t believe;
her man is praying for rock ‘n’ roll
- that she won’t get up and leave
the cosy, crumpled bed
with its flowery, high-tog quilt
in the tranquil, perfumed room
of a home so carefully built.
A greying chap now tidies
the snoozing winter gardens
in the few mild days
before the ice re-hardens
small patches of green,
for weeks covered in snow,
and now the weatherman says
that they don’t really know
if there’s more of it to come
in a vindictive white wall,
we will not hear it overnight
as the mute flakes fall.
Bad weather is a fine excuse
to stay home and praise the Lord
that even a beefy jeep
can’t drive through the swollen ford;
so we’re making love in shadows,
trying desperately to connect
struggling to light the fire again,
after years of stern neglect
Scheme | XA XA XB XB CC CC XD CD XE XE CF XF CG XG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 01011101 011101111 1111101 010101 11100111 0010011 10111001 010111 0101010 00111 0101110 11011 111001 010101 111101 1111111 0001011 11111101 10111 11010101 1110101 1100101 1110101 1010101 101000101 1001101001 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 817 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 14 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 47 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on January 25, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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