Analysis of Schoolyard Games
Melissa Klock 1075 (United States)
My Boundaries are not your playgrounds to be played on.
Do not think you can keep pushing them with no detention.
Teeter Totters do have a hard stop you know.
One minute up, one minute down with no other direction to go.
Feel free to hop on off of this merry go around that we call a marriage if you can’t respect my boundaries.
| Scheme | X X A A X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110011111111 11111110111010 1011101111 11011101111001011 1111111110101111010111011100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 339 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 52 |
| Words per line (avg) | 13 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
Firm boundaries in a relationship, with a decisive yet playful tone.
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