Analysis of Farm Wife Sadly Alone, Troubled
Farm Wife Sadly Alone, Troubled
She will hang the laundry shortly
Just right amount of wind.
Kids have departed on the yellow bus.
A day in May when
All seems glowing and clean.
Vegetable garden
Just put in.
Albert is at a meeting of men
Left early.
Discussing strategies in pricing of crops.
Corn, beans, canola.
He took the larger two horse buggy.
She might go for a spin herself.
Later.
The old farmhouse creaks
As if to keep her company.
Helen down the Road
will be extremely busy
As well. No time for bothering her.
She sings to herself
Songs of Wednesdays’
Quilting group.
Her only society.
She calls the Dog for
A dish of water
Then opens the kitchen door
For his Exodus.
She has no Exodus.
Except in the precious
Scriptures.
Or sitting in the shaded
Swing seat. Lunchtime.
Sketching, and delighting
In a sandwich made
With last October’s preserves.
Daughter Karen had shared in the
Canning.
Now Karen has left the Life.
The way of Menno’s quiet people.
About a hundred forty years
Out of date. But righteous.
(Plight of many Amish women. Mennonites.)
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11100110 11101010 110111 1101010101 01011 111001 10010 110 101101011 110 01010001011 11010 110101110 11110101 10 0111 11110100 10101 1101010 111111000 11101 111 101 0100100 11011 01110 1100101 11100 111100 010010 10 1100010 111 100010 00101 11101 10101100 10 1101101 01111010 01010101 111110 1110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,110 |
Words | 236 |
Sentences | 29 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 41, 1 |
Lines Amount | 43 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 278 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Written on February 14, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 14, 2023
Modified on March 30, 2023
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