Analysis of Uncertainty
No one knows uncertainty like the single mother
Standing outside in her nightdress
At four in the morning with the dew-sodden
Lawn sticking to her bare feet.
Her daughter clutches the stuffed rabbit
She refused to leave behind and
Clings to her mother’s leg,
Hiding her face in fists of cotton fabric.
An infant boy squirms in the woman’s arms
And squalls against her shoulder.
His body is slick, and his face is
Redder than the flames reflected
In her glassy eyes as she stands slack-faced
Watching her present turn to smoke
To be swept away by who knows what wind.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHBABIJKL |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1110100101010 1011001 11001010110 1101011 010100110 10111010 110101 10010111010 110110011 0101010 110110111 10101010 0010111111 10010111 1110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
About this poem
A musing on how swiftly catastrophe can happen and unmoor a life.
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