Analysis of Featuring Michael Ondaatje
Griffin calls to come and kiss him goodnight
I yell ok. Finish something I'm doing,
then something else, walk slowly round
the corner to my son's room.
He is standing arms outstretched
waiting for a bearhug. Grinning.
Why do I give my emotion an animal's name,
give it that dark squeeze of death?
This is the hug which collects
all his small bones and his warm neck against me.
The thin tough body under the pyjamas
locks to me like a magnet of blood.
How long was he standing there
like that, before I came?
| Scheme | XAXXXA BXCXCX XB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110111 11111010110 11011101 0101111 1110101 1010110 1111101011001 1111111 1101101 11110111011 011101001 111101011 1111101 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 542 |
| Words | 115 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Written on March 28, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on March 28, 2023
Modified on March 28, 2023
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