Analysis of A lovely story to tell
A LOVELY STORY TO TELL
WE STARTED OUT ON A LONG
LONG TRIP, 2100 MILES, MY
LITTLE SISTER IN LAW AND
HER MOTHER WAS GOING WITH
US, MY LITTLE SISTER IN LAW
SAID, CAN I SIT IN THE BACK
WITH MY FEET HANGING OUT?
HER MOM SAID NO- NO MY DEAR
WE’VE A LONG- LONG WAY TO
GO. SHE TOOK THAT NOT THINKING
JUST HOW FAR IT WAS. SHE WAS
GETTING REALLY TIRED ABOUT
100 MILES AHEAD.
SHE SAID I WANT SOMETHING TO
EAT ARE WE THERE YET? BY THE
TIME WE GOT TO CALIFORNIA SHE
WAS SAYING I WANT TO GO BACK
HOME AND NEVER-EVER TAKE
A LONG TRIP LIKE THIS AGAIN
I DON’T LIKE TO ROAM.
IT WAS QUITE A WHILE BEFORE WE
WENT BACK HOME. I’M AFRAID SHE
LEARNED QUITE WELL HOW TO ROAM
BEFORE WE GOT BACK HOME
April 25, 2021
Author Clara Case ( Deen )
| Scheme | X XXXXXAB XCXXBX CXDAXXE DDEE X X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101011 1101101 1111 1010010 0101101 11101001 1111001 111101 0111111 101111 1111110 1111111 10101001 101 1111101 1111110 11110101 11011111 1010101 0111101 11111 11101011 1111011 111111 011111 10 101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 698 |
| Words | 151 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 6, 7, 4, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 27 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
My hubby our children and I traveled all over the USA and this was one of the exciting ones.
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