Analysis of Passed-on goods
I like charity shops because I can see:
A collection of naked Barbie dolls
Unashamed
In a bin
For only 50p
Your grandfather’s suit
Worn once
Some gravy on the sleeve
A hole burnt from the last time he remembered who he…
The rest is either
“Shogun Assassin” or “Mr. Men Volume 4”
And tatty slogans like “live, laugh, Prosecco” on cheap wooden boards.
Broken buttons
Battered boxes
The constant intrusion of physical beats
Or covered invisibly with another person’s grief
In-
Com-
Plete
A puzzle,
With a missing piece
Leaving the final picture up to
Whatever you want to feel or believe
I like charity shops
They let me breathe
In that fleeting moment
Of someone else’s life unknown -
a transplanted grief.
They Let me feel a sort of “passed-on” reprieve
At the thought of how much
My things will receipt.
Scheme | A XBCA XXDA XXX XXXE CXB XXXD X XXXE DXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100101111 0010110101 01 001 1101 1101 11 110101 0111011101011 01110 10010110110 01010111111101 1010 1010 01001011001 11011010101 0 1 1 010 10101 100101011 101111101 111001 1111 011010 1110101 00101 11110111101 101111 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 850 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 3, 4, 3, 4, 1, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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