Analysis of I BE THE KING

Kenneth Bartlett 1934 (Leominsterr Mass)



I get cranky when I get cold.
They inform me I am old.
Yet, no one for certain can say,
what year, month, day,
where, or to whom I was born.
My story begins one morn.
On a snowy day in December.
All anyone could remember,
someone opened the front door.
and placed a hat box on the floor.
I was trapped inside, shivering,
wrapped in paper glimmering
with this greeting attached:
“From heaven dispatched”.
Long before I learned to crawl,
I was carried in a cozy wool shawl
and fed milk from a spoon by hand.
Thus, life with a single mom began.
The local drag queen now had a son.
Mama was a strong loving person.
Determined, I was to stay.
        He/she would never give me away.
With help from many a Dr. Spock lesson,
I was raised as her/his only son.
He/she had a song she/he liked to sing:
"I be a queen and you be my king.”
That little tune and Mama's love
kept me strong and far above
all the hate, catcalls, ill will, and sting.
Mama, you be my queen and I be your king.
Forever!


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIJKKBBKKFFLLFFD
Poetic Form
Metre 11101111 1011111 11111011 1111 1111111 1100111 101010010 1101010 110011 01011101 11101100 1010100 111001 11001 1011111 1110001011 01110111 111010101 010111101 101011010 0101111 111101101 1111001110 111101101 1110111111 110101111 11010101 1110101 10111101 10111101111 010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,038
Words 221
Sentences 21
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 31
Lines Amount 31
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 738
Words per stanza (avg) 192

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successful parenting comes in all colors of the rainbow

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Written on February 12, 2023

Submitted by compostken on February 12, 2023

Modified on April 07, 2023

1:06 min read
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Kenneth Bartlett

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