Analysis of Names
Robert Creeley 1926 (Arlington) – 2005 (Odessa)
Marilyn’s was Norma Jean.
Things are not always as they seem.
Skin she lived back of like some screen
kept her wonder in common view,
said what she did, you could too,
loved by many, touched by few.
She married heroes of all kinds
but no one seemed to know her mind,
none the secret key could find.
Scared kid, Norma Jean?
Are things really what they seem?
What is it that beauty means?
| Scheme | ABA CCC XDD ABX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 1111111 11111111 10100101 1111111 1110111 11010111 11111101 1010111 11101 1110111 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 377 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 75 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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