Analysis of Kindergarten
The bookshelves
hid me perfectly
No one could see,
then he dug his
teeth into me
Dirty nose,
he’s a bastard
flopped to the floor
we were class-less
White kids in masses
Mornings were cold
inside the classroom
We held her shoes
while she read
and I didn’t want
to wear my hair up
I swallowed my words
at breakfast
Then puked them
up after school-
Mute-invested.
I knew more then
Life felt backward
What was I hiding from?
Their faces?
Would I die if I
could face this?
Double-knot laces
Air hit the back
of my neck
This was tasteless
I hid behind the same bookshelves
Where he bit me,
where she hid with me
where I cried for my mother
because she had never
left me
I wondered what would
happen if I spoke
with my own tongue
And when the
words finally came
out they could
barely see me
Scheme | ABBXB XCXXD XXXXXX XXXXX XC XDXXD XXX ABBEEB FXX XXFB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01 11100 1111 1111 1011 101 1010 1101 1011 11010 1001 0101 1101 111 0111 11111 11011 110 111 1101 1010 1111 1110 111101 110 11111 111 10110 1101 111 1110 1101011 1111 11111 1111110 011110 11 11011 10111 1111 010 11001 111 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 813 |
Words | 181 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 6, 5, 2, 5, 3, 6, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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This poem has to do with my Kindergarten experience
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