Analysis of CURLING TONGS
When I was a little girl,
I LONGED to have my hair in curl.
Back in the day my Mum would say
'Twas God that made your hair that way."
But I was really not content,
I wanted hair that she said was BENT!
One day a party came HURRAY!
At laser a chance to have my way.
She'd heat the metal curling tong
Then tested on paper 'til the marks were gone.
I felt the heat,she'd twist and turn
The scalding irons so they'd not burn.
A mass of frizzy I would caress,
I likely looked a real mess
But frankly cared not at all
For in my mind I was BELLE OF THE BALL!
| Scheme | AABBCCBBDEFFGGHH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110101 11111101 10011111 11111111 11110110 110111111 11010101 110011111 11010101 11011010101 1101101 010101111 01111101 1101011 1101111 1011111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 551 |
| Words | 127 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 418 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
About this poem
I was a small child in the 50s and wrote this because I LONGED to have curly hair!
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