Analysis of Two White Shirts.
Heather Lydia Thornhill 1981 (Manchester)
How much do you deserve the gift:
The one which made you;
The jolt and twist
that turned inside you
Into you and much more beyond you?
Children fearless of its texture
Smear there white floors
One permanent, the other
Slipping atop the first.
The smell neglected but not shy
Confident the nail grow in, even,
Shadings of the sun.
Scratching the earth collecting it
Homeward to keep.
| Scheme | XAXAA BXBXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11110101 01111 0101 11011 011011011 10101110 1111 1100010 100101 01010111 100011010 10101 10010101 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 370 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
This poem is about the never lost archaic nature through childhood and adulthood then through to the beyond and back to our ancestral roots turning in full halo.
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Written on September 07, 2021
Submitted by heathert.34240 on September 07, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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