Analysis of Wasted Snowball



The clothesline it hung,
between two trees on the hill.
Covered in snow,
as that was God's will.

The child he ran,
from his Aunt in fear.
Cuzz the snowball she'd throw,
would hit him, it was clear.

He ran like crazy,
to miss her attack.
He hit that ole clothesline,
and fell flat on his back.

He landed so hard,
his pain turned to laughter.
And everyone came,
still chasing after.

Slipping and sliding,
laughing so hard.
Twas plain to see,
the boy was not scarred!
Copyright ©2002
 Sandra JoAnne Booth-Maxwell


Scheme XABA XCBC DEBE FGXG XFDFXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0111 0111101 1001 11111 0111 11101 10111 111111 11110 11001 11111 011111 11011 111110 0101 11010 10010 1011 1111 01111 10 10111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 489
Words 92
Sentences 11
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 6
Lines Amount 22
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 78
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on April 12, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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