Analysis of The Smell of Bacon and Tomatoes
Morning,
The smell of bacon frying gently touches my senses.
I am taken back to the summers of my childhood so many years ago.
There my grandma would be starting to cook
Breakfast before the rooster had called.
There in the warm kitchen she'd say,
"fetch me a tomato child, fresh from the Garden."
And I would head out the back door to the
Garden and pick her the very best one.
Then with both her and my granddaddy,
I would eat and eat,
Savoring the smell, the taste, the place.
The smell of bacon frying and tomato vines.
It still brings both of them back down to earth for me.
They come through my nose and straight into my heart.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHGIJKLIM |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 10 01110101010110 111011010111110101 1110111011 100101011 10011011 11001111010 0111101110 1001001011 11100110 11101 100010101 01110100011 111111111111 11111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 494 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on January 13, 2010
Modified on April 07, 2023
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