Analysis of Lola
Grandmother, why do you slave
Over that hot stove cooking
That fried rice, Filipino style?
Does it taste so good
Because of that water that you sprinkle
From your fingers to the rice?
Your scent lingers,
Mingles with the overheated oil and burnt rice
That will later crackle
Between my white teeth
With the taste of fire-burnt bitterness.
You smile when I compliment your cooking,
As the soy sauce-covered grains
Do their delicate, little dance in my mouth
And I ask for a second helping.
Scheme | ABCDEFGFEHIBJKB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 101111 1011110 1110101 11111 0111101110 1110101 1110 10101001011 111010 01111 1011101100 1111100110 1011101 11100101011 011101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 393 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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