Analysis of Circa 1956
When the world was small
my heroes were big
living on a 12’’ screen
the telephone operator knew me by name
when the party line was open and free
on Tuesdays it was the bread man
on Wednesdays came meat
Friday mornings the Fuller Brush man rang twice
Saturdays were baseball, bleacher seats for a buck
and on Sunday to church on my bike
when on Monday the Nun asked where the black eye was from
I smiled and said “ran into a door”
while all the while knowing this was the time of my life
—a time when the world was so small
(Conshohocken Pennsylvania: March, 2021)
Scheme | AXXXXXXXXXXXXA X |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (33%) |
Metre | 10111 11001 10101 0101001111 1010111001 1111011 1111 10100101111 100011101101 01111111 1110011101111 110110101 1101101101111 01101111 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 560 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 14, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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