Analysis of Auntie

Kevin Anderson 1965 (Ill)



In everyone's life there is struggle and strife
With blind folds on we enter life
Sink or swim is how we are taught
That the best lessons are those lessons bought

We all need guidance and encouragement
From our childhood to adulthood development
Some get it all while others lack basic common sense
The proof is readily available check the evidence

Who does one turn to for life's exacting education
Honor Auntie Gussie quickly and without hesitation
She teaches the word that open ears have heard
She clears the way so the blind see straight into a curb

She may make a lot of noise fussing no cussing
The notes of “do the right thing” she does sing
That's Aunt Gussie,  forever loving and caring
That’s Auntie Gussie sharing all as she is preparing


Scheme AAXX BBXX CCXX DDDD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 0101111001 11111101 11111111 1011011101 1111000100 11011010100 1111110110101 011100010010100 1111111010010 10101010001010 11001110111 1101101110101 111011110110 0111011111 111001010010 11010101111010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 759
Words 138
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 152
Words per stanza (avg) 34

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Submitted by mr_kevin.anderson on April 28, 2022

Modified by mr_kevin.anderson on April 29, 2022

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Kevin Anderson

From ghetto fabulous to military standards with customs and courtesies. The Path taken in life from the United States of America to far and distant lands has indubitably exposed me bare. The adventure has made the person; the man. Born in Illinois, raised in East St. Louis and Royal Lakes, from there the fam hightailed it to California. Dallied in Inglewood then Bompton or Compton, some do say. Signed my name on the dotted line bringing the world into full view. I joined the United States Air Force in 1986, fully retired in 2016, 30 years of honorable service and of making life do what it does so I can do what I do when I do what I do communicating my thoughts or a few. more…

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