Analysis of Childhood in New York
Childhood in New York
Pocket change dangling from open pockets
candy stores soda fountains five and dimes
root beer floats licorice sticks baseball cards
and chewing gum
stick ball bats against dark black streets
and smells of pink rubber balls
Sun filters slowly through silent water
of fire hydrants where children play
and dance their days away
Thick colored chalk on grey cement
tell the stories of their young lives
hopscotch double Dutch and rhymes
sing songs of childhood dreams
as mothers out windows call to and fro
penny arcades newspaper boys on bikes
throwing bundles of dailies to stoops
bright red balloons on whitened twine
held up to oxen’s of the sun
They do not notice the noise and grime
tenements with close lines drape banners
that rise and fall to breath of sails in the wind
open windows to the morning air
sewer covers where steam rises to the evening sky
car horns call in the distance
the lonely cop walks his beat
City streets playground of sounds
that whistle full of joy in a summers day
roof tops black tar beaches of pidgin coops
cigarettes and beer and
radios play in background squares
Scheme | X ABXXXX XCC XXBXXXXXX XXXXXXX XCAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 10110011010 1011010101 1111001111 0101 11101111 0111101 1101011010 110101101 011101 11011101 10101111 110101 11111 1101101101 100110111 101011011 1101111 1111101 111100101 100111110 11011111001 101010101 1010111010101 1110010 0101111 101111 11011100101 111110111 01010 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,132 |
Words | 202 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 3, 9, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 154 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
Memories of growing up in New York City
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