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 |
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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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