Analysis of Daddy won’t be coming home tonight
The steam that rises from the shell
Mists up the scope lens
A steady hand etches a heart
Through which the other bleeds
A tattered pass absorbs the flood
Inches from the silent hand
That reached beneath his thread bare coat
A white flag not received
The towel-head becomes another scratch
A tally of the toll
A line on the barrel of a hired gun
No space for numbers here
A dog-eared girl
Watermarked in red
Stares up from the inner cover of the pass…
… daddy won’t be coming home tonight
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110101 11011 01011001 110101 01010101 1010101 11011111 011101 0101010101 010101 01101010101 111101 0111 101 11101010101 101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 479 |
| Words | 92 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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