Analysis of A Broken Teaspoon
In the distance leaves
intermingled with paper,
they caught my gaze as I stared;
dead-eyed.
Reflection wrapped condensation
into blue pools of stagnant breath.
Everyday invaded -
as it always does,
subtle musical notes,
sounds belched: fridge-freezer
bubbles in heated water.
Language crashed against
a moan; it tunnelled
its way from cracked lips
with a broken teaspoon.
Love spat on the carpet behind
this statuesque audition,
dignity did not bother to grin this time,
it just considered the stain.
Enlightenment flickered
and died as I swerved from cold glass
to reach for a branch of memory.
Her laughter seemed detached,
those sparkling colours not so bright
in hindsight's vicious twist.
Shrugs bottled themselves up
in shoulders; slouched,
waste not - want not -
they would be used
in a futuristic paradise perhaps.
As I watched nature
and man's decay giggle
in the garden; stretched,
defeat scurried away,
resignation stepped up;
fresh-faced - eager to please,
it juggled present emotions
across the breadth of the past.
Scheme | XABX CX XXXAA XBXX XCXX XXX XXX DBXXX AXXXDXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00101 010110 1111111 11 0101010 01111101 101010 1111 101001 11110 1001010 10101 0111 11111 10101 11101001 101010 10011101111 1101001 010010 01111111 111011100 010101 1101111 01101 110011 0101 1111 1111 000101001 11110 010110 00101 011001 01011 111011 11010010 0101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 991 |
Words | 165 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 5, 4, 4, 3, 3, 5, 8 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on September 22, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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