Analysis of Beans
Today I went to the market
Sold my cow and got me some beans
Would go great with rice, these beans
That lay in my hand pulsating
ever so slightly.
Except they were magic,
magic beans
Like those in the children's story
of a boy and
A beanstalk.
Do you believe in magic?
I put away my magic beans,
in a little leather pouch as I
walk the dusty road back home.
And I think that perhaps
in order to be free,
one has to let go.
Like a magic bean,
that only grows
when you throw it away.
Should I too cast away
all that I know
and seek to find
all that I could become?
But then, that will be testing
The magic.
I think I'd rather
keep my beans,
hidden away..
in a little drawer, and
every once in a while...
just peek at them...
and chuckle to myself
and reminisce about a cow
and a beanstalk
and hope in time
I could give the beans
to my children,
and they will have the courage to seek
the magic
and climb too
a beanstalk.
Scheme | xaabcdaceBd axxxcfxxggfxxbD xagexxxxbxaxxDxB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111010 11101111 1111111 1101110 10110 011010 101 11001010 1010 01 1101010 11011101 001010111 1010111 011101 010111 11111 10101 1101 111101 111101 1111 0111 111101 1111110 010 11110 111 1001 001010 1001001 1111 01011 0010101 001 0101 11101 1110 011101011 010 011 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 916 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 15, 16 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on July 25, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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