Analysis of Bench Buddies
Wayne Blair 1951 (London)
Bench
Close to one another
Gramma holding tight
The market basket.
Teenage flipping repeatedly
Skateboard into his hands.
Relaxed.
Gramma giggles
With gloved hand covering.
So you like that
Do you Ma’am?
Watch this one then
Nearby stair well
Becomes gymnasium
For boarder’s craft.
No scrapes, bruises, breaks.
Oh here’s the Number Eleven
Hurry.
Get on with me, Son.
(A new inter-generational
Event of happenstance.)
Scheme | XXXABXXXX ACXXCXX DBDXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 111010 1101 01010 1100100 10111 01 110 111100 1111 111 1111 1111 010100 1101 11101 11010010 10 11111 01010100 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 425 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on April 06, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 06, 2023
Modified on April 06, 2023
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