Analysis of Patients
She flashes past me.
The silver bumper, from her gray,rusty car,
shocks the daydream from my eye.
She is an elf
with her pale rounded top.
Her pointy ears cuddle up to battle scars.
She, as bald as wet cement
and as soft as a child dressed in tears,
uses the pavement as her scapegoat.
Is she escaping,
riding the road far from treatment?
My thoughts finger through the possibilities.
She screeches on
miles past me
and I still feel her here.
Her shadow rests next to me
on this red,splintered bench.
We wait for the bus to take us home.
Scheme | AXX XXX XXX XXX XAX AXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 010101011 101111 1111 101101 01011011101 1111101 011101101 10010101 11010 10011110 1110100100 1101 111 011101 011111 1111 111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 520 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 70 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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