Analysis of The spark



a big woman eat an ice cream sundae

the round sore
on the tip of my dog's nose
from trying to flip the kennel's latch
that she might run home

my mother
brave hundreds of thirsty mosquitos
and the sweltering Delta heat
to sit
with a glass of wine
and look at the moon


Scheme X XAXX XAXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0110111110 011 1011111 11011011 11111 110 110110010 00100101 11 10111 01101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 266
Words 56
Sentences 1
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 6
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 70
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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