Analysis of Mother's Day 2013
Leon Johnson III 1992 (Atlanta, Ga)
Few could ever be this resilient.
they may have the Sight,
but are seldom this brilliant.
—The manager of mansions—
No matter how the house is built,
you raise that man's sons.
The cost of your labor
is never paid through paper, but with favor
when we come back richer twenty years later.
There is no force that can break what is maternal,
—lest it be internal.
There is no weight that can crush a mother,
because even when she's pressed for much,
her child is smothered...
With patience,
With care,
and with safety in heart.
Mothers are proof that love is art.
Scheme | AXA BXB CCC DD CXXXXEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011010 11101 1110110 0100110 11010111 11111 011110 11011101110 11111010110 111111111010 111010 1111111010 011011111 01110 110 11 011001 10111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 2, 7 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
This poem I wrote for all mothers: Mine, Hers, and especially the Mother of my children.
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