Analysis of Jasmine Rice
Wafting in the early afternoon air, like
The music of her youth (playing on the radio),
The aroma brought back memories of childhood,
Making her eyes misty, but her heart full.
"I love that aroma ever since I was a
Little girl," she told me.
The price is double the regular Calrose, but
The flavor is prize enough to forget that
The difference in dollars and cents would have
Sufficed for a hearty order of chicken adobo at
Bibingkahan, or fried chicken dinner meal at Vons.
The thought of the perfect viand
To complement "this ne'er ere cooked rice"
In her kitchen made her tarry there...
Playing solitaire.
And--sotanghon (with pork and shrimp) it was!
And--Ace, my beloved bichon frise, never
Had a serving of rice--tastier.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIHJBKLLMNN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1000100111 010101101010 00101110011 1001101011 111010101110 101111 01110010011 01011011011 01000100111 0110101011011 1111010111 0110011 110011111 001010101 1001 01110111 011011110 101011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 569 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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