Analysis of Moving the Piano



On the borrowed trailer's
Quilted wooden slats,
With couches' corded seas

And wilted houseplant greens,
By straining neighbors' arms,
Black grand piano, come.

Where brass boxed butterflies
Beneath a duct-taped lid
Are poised, when sprung, to flit

Your tapers' pale blue skies,
Then, weary, to alight
The rented glossy walls,

Into their white,
By weekend labor's alms,
Black grand piano, come.


Scheme aaa aaB axx aca caB
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 1011 10101 110101 01011 110101 110101 11110 010111 111111 110111 110101 010101 0111 11101 110101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 396
Words 73
Sentences 2
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 62
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Written on 2021

Submitted by James_Kirkpatrick on December 13, 2023

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