Analysis of The 10th Brick From the Bottom
Home is a brick-red structure
With a black entrance and exit.
A blackness that’s noted on the first
And last day of the month
And all those in between.
By which, I mean,
If leaving or entering
There’s no way around it.
With equal regularity
I have ignored the tenth
Brick from the bottom.
Though both door and brick
share the same seniority.
These musings are a preamble
To the following query:
Which word or words go unheeded
By each of us daily?
Then one day,
Out-of-the-blue, it is needed.
In a leisurely way we
Fish around becoming increasingly
Frantic when we fail to hoist
It from a memory
Turned murky and dense.
Our heartbeat increases
We become tense, unused
As we are, to grasping for
Words like a stranger, confused.
That happened for me
Yesterday when I noticed my
Whatchamacallit was showing.
For all my efforts, I could not
Call it to mind.
Some 10 hours later, as
I was getting ready to unwind
It flitted into my active
Memory bank - “strap”
Was the word I had been
Unable to find. My bra-strap
Had slipped from under
My shoulder pad.
The trauma of handling something
Whose nomenclature I could
Not remember
Prompts me to pay attention,
Hereinafter, to the banal little words we banish
And only call them into service
When at our most selfish.
Scheme | ABXXCCDB EXXXE XEXEXX EEXEX XFXF EXDXG XGXHXHAX DXAXIXI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110 10110010 010110101 011101 011001 1111 1101100 111011 1100100 110101 11010 11101 1010100 11010010 1010010 11111010 111110 111 11011110 0010011 1010100100 1011111 110100 11001 101010 101101 1111101 1101001 11011 1011101 1110 11110111 1111 110101 111010101 1101110 10011 101111 01011111 11110 1101 01011010 110011 1010 1111010 11001101110 010110110 1110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,223 |
Words | 227 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 5, 6, 5, 4, 5, 8, 7 |
Lines Amount | 48 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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