Analysis of Scare the house cleaner
Big kids little kids
The prank is still the same
The target is the housecleaner
The fake bug is the game.
Open a kitchen drawer
It will be a surprise
Jump back with a little “yelp”
Poke it with a stick then realize
It’s just a fake bug made of plastic
the kind that kids play with.
But some times those fake bugs look real especially from a distance.
The ones who pull the prank
chuckle when they leave
They are never there to see the surprise
Yet they believe.
Over the years of housecleaning
the fake bug prank often happens to me
I guess it’s all part of doing this job
though I never find it funny.
Written by Lori A. Powell
8/4/2023
Scheme | XABA BCXC XXX XDCD XEXE XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 011101 010101 011101 100101 111001 1110101 11101110 110111110 011111 111111110101010 011101 10111 1110111001 1101 1001110 0111101011 1111111011 11101110 10110010 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
About this poem
Vacation rental homes are popular these days. Everyone knows that someone has to clean the house after the guests check out. Occasionally, there are guests that find humor in pulling a prank on the house cleaner.
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