Analysis of My Life as an Apple

Hailey Miles 2005 (Oklahoma City)



As I await to bloom,
I can't help but be filled with perpetual gloom,
As the Earth revolves,
My confidence dissolves,  
I'm an outcast it's my dreaded fate,
As I await.

I wait hours, closed on my tree,
I bloom as beautiful as the rest,
My pollen spreads, the wind blows me,
My petals fall, an apple to me is blessed.

I am a plump and juicy fruit,
Like a man in a bright red suit,
Disregarded by the birds and bees,
Pick me, please,
My time has come,
You win some, you lose some.

Rotted by the sun and dropped by my tree,
Is this what fate intended for me?


Scheme AABBCC DEDE FFGGHH DD
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 111111101001 10101 110001 11111101 1101 11101111 111100101 11010111 11011101111 11010101 10100111 01010101 111 1111 111111 1010101111 111101011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 565
Words 131
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 6, 2
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 104
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Written on April 23, 2018

Submitted by Snacksophone on July 24, 2023

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