Analysis of Woman To Woman
Mom, I once wished you had said,
"Babies bring stretch marks and widen your feet."
Yet, I would not have known how far I could walk
or how long I could reach.
You could have told me that love means compromising hair appointments,
red king crabs and satin sheets.
How would I had known that nappy hair could make me stronger,
and chili beans could last so much longer?
When I wonder why you didn't tell me the truth,
I glance at Joshua, Marcus and Jordan
and know that every minute was worth the questions, the wait,
the pain that I would endure in life each day.
Thank You For Secrets
Scheme | XXXX XX AA XXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 1011101011 11111111111 111111 111111111001010 1110101 1111111111110 0101111110 111011101101 11110010010 011100101101001 01111010111 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 572 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 2, 5 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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