Analysis of To Dear Shopaholic



She moves like a squirrel scanning the shelves,
And I follow acquiring more ‘must haves'!
She stops and turns an umpteenth time,
She will shop till there is one last dime.
A zigzag course across the whole mall,
She turns once more to check if she eyed all.
She patiently tries one dress and another;
A costly confusion as she wants them together!
Still clutching the possessions she spots a handbag,
I sense positive impressions as she checks the tag.
The triumphant trolley acquires one more prize,
While her jolly eyes flash unbound joy with little disguise.
She next embraces a giant toy toad,
Sans traces of alarm about the overload;
But she turns down the cotton-stuffed bait,
In a distance she sees ear-rings wait.
And they are amazing when tried one by one,
I keep gazing till she selects none!
Nail polish, shampoos and body oils,
They were points gathered for all her toils.
How lost in time and totally unaware,
It was a tenth chime when she bagged chinaware;
Thus we make our way through the exit door,
But she looks over the shoulders, she wants more!
We are gone today but we will be back again,
Because my dear shopaholic just can't abstain!


Scheme ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJKKLEMMNO
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101001 0110010111 1101111 111111111 010101011 1111111111 11001110010 0100101111010 11000101101 1110001011101 001010010111 10101101111001 1101001011 11010101010 111101011 001011111 01101011111 111011011 110010101 101101101 1101010001 110111111 11110110101 11110010111 111011111101 011111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,132
Words 206
Sentences 11
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 917
Words per stanza (avg) 206
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Submitted on August 25, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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