Analysis of What's in a Name?
The teacher recollects the name
from somewhere eons in her past
and asks if it’s the name of fruit,
that’s sweetened way beyond the sweet
to a crystalised solid cast.
Nay, not this name, for there’s no shame
in responding with a spondee,
unlike Shakespeare’s pentameter
that places stress on second sound,
in dynamic dulcet delight,
or expanded cacophony.
Not having seen these twin morphemes,
or even heard them this year past,
the teacher smiles her droll recall –
and agrees with young Juliet
who, when at the Capulet ball
lamenting how unfair her fate
did ask, “What’s in a name?”
Yes, It’s just a name, after all!
Scheme | ABCDBABEFGHIBJKJLAJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100101 1110001 01110111 11010101 101101 11111111 0010101 0111 11011101 00101001 10100100 1101111 11011111 0101011 0011110 111011 01010101 110001 11101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 486 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
About this poem
I responded to a friend I hadn't heard from for a long time. I had almost forgotten her name. it prompted this poem. Her name is Candice - a candy fruit, but she pronounces it 'Candeece.'
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