Analysis of Happy Times
Scarlett Cooper 2010 (Knoxville, TN)
Running shoes strewn across the hall
Boys outside play catch with a bright purple ball
“Time for dinner!” their mothers call
So then it lies abandoned,
That bright purple ball
Little girls play princess and dress up
Sit and have tea parties, teapots and teacups
But now those cups lie shattered
And the ball has been popped
But they can be pieced back together
Like connect the dots
And as those memories
whisk through my mind
I smile and think
"Weren't those happy times?"
| Scheme | AAAXA XB XXXB BXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 10110101 11111101101 11101101 1111010 11101 101110011 101110101 1111110 001111 111111010 10101 011100 1111 1101 101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 481 |
| Words | 90 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 2, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem because I wanted to capture innocence (childhood) and how it gets left behind, but also how it is loved.
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Written on December 01, 2022
Submitted by scarlett_1 on December 01, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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