Analysis of The Girl In The Chuck Taylor All-Stars
Her hair blown free,
with eyes ablaze
She walked toward me,
through morning haze
Her steps unmeasured,
her cutoffs tight
Eyes palest blue,
the lightest light
Would I speak first,
would she respond
In ten more seconds,
her image gone
Our shoulders brush,
she passes by
My arm goes numb,
my heart on fire
I had no choice,
I’d lost control
My breathing stopped,
I’d play the fool
And looking back,
all fear defied
An all-star waited,
—her ‘Chucks’ untied
(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2017)
| Scheme | AB AB CC XC CC XX XX XX XX CX XC CC X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (64%) |
| Metre | 0111 1101 11011 1101 011 011 1101 0101 1111 1101 01110 0101 10101 1101 1111 11110 1111 1101 1101 1101 0101 1101 11110 0101 01001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 500 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 30 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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