Analysis of Ode to an Articulated Bus
It’s been ten minutes, maybe more
I’ve stood here pacing, waiting for
A crosstown bus; it’s always late,
I’ll never make it home by eight.
I’ve now been here for fifteen minutes.
Have I seen a crosstown in it?
I’ve been waiting (and berating)
While MTA’s articulating.
It’s been twenty minutes now
I’m getting plenty sore at how
These buses never run on time;
They leave me sitting here to whine
About the service’s decline,
Too mad to even make a rhyme.
Thirty minutes is too much
Why do they call this hour rush?
And why are buses getting bigger
When we need them only quicker?
I could stand here half the night
With no buses within sight.
I think I’ll walk while there’s still light.
Scheme | AABB XXCC DDEFFE XXGGHH H |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110101 11110101 011111 11011111 111110110 1110101 11100010 110100 1110101 11010111 11010111 11110111 01010001 11110101 1010111 11111101 011101010 11111010 1111101 1110011 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 715 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 6, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
I composed this poem on my walk home.
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