Analysis of THE DAY MY SISTER, CHERYL, ALMOST BURNT DOWN THE MYER MUSIC BOWL
We were sitting in the dry grass
Way back at the end of the crowd,
Back in the early ‘70s when Cheryl
Suddenly cried out aloud.
We were at Carols by Candlelight
Just a few days before Christmas,
Waiting endless hours until
The carolling began at last.
It was a fiery summer day in
One of the worst summers on record,
And so the carolling did not go
Quite exactly to accord.
The grass was dry as tinder
And the candles came in Styrofoam cups,
So when Cheryl dropped her candle
The Myer Music Bowl almost went up.
At the back of the crowd, we panicked
Trying desperately to douse,
What was soon a near inferno
Seemingly too fearsome to put out.
With blankets and our jumpers
We belted at the flames,
With Alfie Boy beside us
Calling Cheryl unkind names.
People soon began to help us
Until there was quite a crowd,
Screams and children’s cries of glee
Until we were very loud.
But thankfully for one and all
Before it reached ATV’s broadcast,
Our struggles began to pay off
Until the inferno was put out.
Too embarrassed to leave then
We sat down on woollen blankets,
And went back to carolling
Hoping soon the crowd would forget.
We never went back in later years
To Carols by Candlelight,
Remembering how Cheryl set the lawn afire
That fateful summer night.
THE END
© Copyright 2021, Philip Roberts
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Scheme | XABA CDXE XFGF XXBX XXGH XIDI DAXA XEXH XXGX XCXC XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10100011 11101101 100101110 1001101 10110110 10110110 10101001 010111 1101001010 110110101 0101111 1010101 0111110 001010101 11101010 010101111 101101110 10100011 11101010 100110111 11001010 110101 1101011 1010011 10101111 0111101 1010111 0110101 11001101 011111 101001111 010010111 1010111 11111010 01111 10101101 110110101 110110 010011010101 110101 01 101010 100100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,293 |
Words | 241 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
This actually happened, in the early 1970s. (Dedicated to Cheryl Anne Roberts)
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Written on December 13, 2008
Submitted by PHIL_ROBERTS on August 25, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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