Analysis of My Garden
I made myself a wastrel
an orphan of my choice
And severed all my family ties
in search of my own voice
I left without once looking back
the present straight ahead
The past redundant, future flawed
to butter my own bread
The years have come with decades gone
old memories buried deep
Of times when I was young and hurt
to dream but not to sleep
New breezes blow, fair winds to call
the children come and go
As here I sit with no regrets
—my garden fully hoed
(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2018)
Scheme | AB XB XC XC XD XD AX XC A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 110111 010111001 011111 11011101 010101 01010101 110111 01111011 1100101 11111101 111111 11011111 010101 11111101 110101 0100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 44 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
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