Analysis of Things I Should Do Today
Don't watch the kettle today
Watch my children play
Don't wash the floors today
Wash my daughter's hair and lace it with ribbons
Don't iron my tablecloth today
Iron out the wrinkles in my relationships
Don't dust the furniture today
Dust off my bike and cycle with my children
Don't polish the silver today
Polish up on my Monopoly skills
Don't listen to the news today
Listen to my children's stories
Don't fold the laundry today
Unfold the hidden child in me
Don't wait to spend time with my children
When I think I have the time, they will already be grown
| Scheme | AA AX AX AB AX AX AX BX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101001 11101 110101 11101011110 11011001 10101001010 11010001 11110101110 11001001 1011101001 11010101 10111010 1101001 01010101 111111110 11111011101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 544 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
Motherhood
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Written on 2002
Submitted by lindagambino on July 27, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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