Analysis of An Old Photo
That still fresh old photograph of you
astride a spotted pony, bare feet
dangling as limply as your torn dress:
the background was a high veranda,
cool green trimmed with gingerbread.
A small boy sat the animal with you --
two solemn and handsome children
upon a well-fed pony, photographed
by an itinerant in the thirties --
the time frozen as long as the picture
or fading memories of it may last.
The boy, our brother,
did little in his forty years;
but now, we see his boy's eyes,
soft, liquid, serious, sad,
no hint of smile about them.
We weep his loss.
And you, sister:
alert, protective, girl's face
set to fend off the world.
Cast so early in your role
as glue holding us together.
Scheme | AXXXX AXXXBX BXXXXX BXXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011 01010111 100111111 01101010 111110 0111010011 11001010 01011110 1101000010 0110111010 1101001111 011010 11001101 1111111 1101001 1111011 1111 0110 0101011 111101 1110011 11101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 669 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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