Analysis of No One Decides These Things
Once, when she was four years old,
she took the hand of her father
and stepped over the puddles left
in the potholes from the rainstorm.
One puddle was underneath an exhaust pipe.
It shone with oily colors; swirls of red, yellow, green.
"Daddy, I see a dead rainbow."
Her father clutched his heart
because it was such a beautiful thing
for her to say.
The years have gone fast.
Here she is now,
thirty-one years old, trying
to breathe new life into a dead bird,
mouth to beak,
with her own small son watching
very carefully.
Scheme | XXXX XX X XAX X XAXXAX |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 11011010 01100101 001101 1101011011 1111010111101 1011011 010111 0111101001 1011 01111 1111 1011110 111101011 111 1011110 10100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 508 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 1, 3, 1, 6 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 68 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
Font size:
Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
- 29 sec read
- 7 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"No One Decides These Things" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 11 Jun 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/80305/no-one-decides-these-things>.
Discuss this Jessica Anthony poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In