Analysis of A Changing Stew
I’m predisposed to Italian food,
even when it’s bad
I’d rather live in a period house,
old windows poorly clad
I tend to favor contact sports,
over all the other kind
My mind was trained to like these things,
though better I would find
It wasn’t out of malice,
or a sense that I was best
I drank the open chalice,
never beating on my chest
With time my views have broadened,
and my edges softened too
My life a jambalaya,
—and the truth a changing stew
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2017)
Scheme | XA XA XB XB XC XC XD XD X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110101 10111 1101001001 110101 1111011 1010101 11111111 110111 111110 1011111 1101010 1010111 1111110 0110101 1101 0010101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 498 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 42 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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