Analysis of Century Park
A nine-year-old girl
often wakes up under the aging palms
in a deserted park, to stay the day
a bright afternoon squandered again, the heat rises above the grass.
The girl ambles to another area to sit lest someone discovers she's alone.
A pile of yellow dog-eared zoology magazines lay untidy to her side.
A soft caress upon her cheek to lessen the dry heat, a breeze flits by.
The fleeting wind quenches the thirst felt from drinking from the park's boiling water fountain.
The girl squints down the street, trying to eye people and get an idea of the time it is?
Wondering and squinting, thinking about echoing slams of cabinet doors and chairs scrapping. Families make their way to dinner and talk about family things.
The girl begins imagining if she can return home without being seen.
Is it okay to go home?
The young one closes her eyes again.
I do not belong.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111 1011100101 0001011101 0101100101100101 011010101001111010101 01110110100101010101 010101011100110111 010110011110101101010 01110110111001101010111 1000101001100111001011010011111001011001 0101010011101101101 111111 011100101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 882 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 691 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 156 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem because I was lonely as a child after being told to stay outside all day. I was never sure when I was okay to go home.
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