Analysis of 130
What hair he has upon his head is gray,
and where none grows his pate reflects the light.
The cigarettes he smokes, a pack each day,
Infuse their scent across his ample height.
He does not have the body of a god,
nor does he have the stamina of youth.
He early retires for the night. He’s flawed.
He puts sticks up his nose: he’s quite a goof.
The scars he carries on body and heart
run deeper in him than their marks suggest.
The damage they’ve caused him to stop this start.
His fear to himself he finally confessed.
Yet all of these “defects” make him much more real
than any imagined or dreamt “ideal.”
Scheme | ABABCDEFGHGHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 0111110101 001110111 0111011101 1111010101 1111010011 1100110111 1111111101 0111011001 1100111101 0101111111 11101110001 11111011111 1100101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 608 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 469 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Written on 2021
Submitted by M-Sten on September 17, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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