Analysis of The Kitchen
Chief Speak-a-little-French 1980 (Calgary)
Pots, pans and plates
Pots, pans
And the larder
A ghost house
Trembling
The larder
Stocked with oats and rice
Pots
And when it is time to cook
And then the gas stove is lit for
A feast
Pots, pans and plates
– Rows of jars line
The windowsill
Preserves, chutneys, jams
Preserves, chutneys
– and mango atchar
That reminds me
Of India
Oh! Lord Gandhi!
| Scheme | Ax bxx bxx xxx Axx xab cxc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (60%) Etheree (25%) |
| Metre | 1101 11 0010 011 100 010 11101 1 0111111 01011111 01 1101 1111 01 0111 011 0101 1011 1100 1110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 333 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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