Analysis of Tempting Green
Lack of money disperses families
in current days, as sons and daughters go
when no job there, a fact each of them sees,
and they set out: "I’ll find something and grow."
Far from their homes, forced to live with the flow
that’s insecure, all contact’s diluted.
Phones are hardly picked up or muted
because the news, it is seldom okay
when guts and hope have sunk, are grunted.
You can’t climb green hills naively today.
| Scheme | ABABBCDEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 11101100 0101110101 1111011111 0111111001 1111111101 110011010 111011110 010111101 110111110 1111101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 427 |
| Words | 80 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 326 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
Font size:
31 fans
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Tempting Green" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 1 May 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/99259/tempting-green>.
Powered by CITE.ME
Discuss this Ludy Bührs poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In