Analysis of Kingdom



It was just us in our kingdom.
A simple courtyard of cool green grass
encircled by cream colored concrete that was
toasted warm in the afternoon sun
and chilled in the pale indigo evenings.
In our kingdom,
We were super heroes with beach towel
capes and pine cone grenades. . . .
We were princesses with clover crowns
and 25-cent lip gloss, . . .
Sometimes, we would sit barefoot in the dewy
summer grass and watch, with popsicles bleeding
their sugary nectar over our scraped
knuckles, as shades of evening rolled over
the oranges, yellows, and purples of a fading
sunset.
We were all alone then.
Just me and my friends, all alone, in our own
kingdom.


Scheme ABCDEAFGHIJKLMKNOPA
Poetic Form
Metre 111101010 01011111 01011100111 10100011 010011010 01010 1010101110 101101 101001101 0111 0111110010 101011110 11001010101 1011110110 0100100101010 1 101011 110111010101 10
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 634
Words 112
Sentences 12
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 19
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 513
Words per stanza (avg) 118
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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