Analysis of Checklist February 29



1 Nah nah nah.
2 Jazz and snow and highway
3. Slush on windshield
4. Driving to Clackamas on Interstate 5
5. Clack a moose. Sha na na.
6. The GPS interrupts the radio and I strain to make out the direction
7. Seventy three miles per hour
8. Scat & trombone.
9. Take five
10. Better homes and gardens
11. Age-proof your brain
12 The radio interrupts the voices if played loud enough.
13. Snow gives way to rain
14. Armstrong gives way to Holiday, gives way
15. I give way to merging trucks
16. Turn left in 3.7 miles
17. Shoobie shoobie do wop wop
18. I-5 gives way to I-205
19. Detour ahead
20. And thanks for your assistance
21. A shot in the knee
22. and it bends, it curtsies
23. A riff, a minor fall and a major lift
24 A crescendo leaving the airways and filling the highway
25. The drifts lie on the side of the road
26. I can now dance but cannot sing a solo
27. The snow again falls, big flakes that threaten
28. When Sunny gets Blue
29. Slush creeps back on the pavement
30. Balconies with wide eyes overlook the lanes
31. The GPS mutters again, then stays quiet on the return.
32. The temperature creeps up
33. Degrees


Scheme ABCDAEFGHIJKJBLMNOPQRISBTUEVWXYZ1
Poetic Form
Metre 111 10101 111 101100101 101111 01010100111110010 10011110 101 11 101010 1111 0100101011101 11111 11111011 1111101 1101 11111 11111 0101 0111010 01001 01111 01010100101 0010100101001 011101101 1111110101 0101111110 11011 1111010 1001111001 01100111101001 010011 01
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,101
Words 222
Sentences 37
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 33
Lines Amount 33
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 865
Words per stanza (avg) 221

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Published on We Are 50 Poems online journal.

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Written on February 29, 2012

Submitted by Ariel on September 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ariel

Ariel is a full-time Pacific Northwest poet, often participating at Oregon Open Mics events. She has been published in Gold Man Review, AIM, The Widow’s Handbook, and most recently in Terra Incognita, On The Platform Waiting and Free From Monsters. Ariel often collaborates in many Willamette Valley poetry/art projects and is a member of Oregon Poetry Association, Mid-Valley Poets Association, Willamette Writers and Poet. Her website is poetariel.net. more…

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