Analysis of Kitchener in Transition.
My place of residence
These last 36 years.
Formerly Berlin Ontario
Fights over the Kaiser’s statue
Dumped in Victoria Park Lake.
Re-named after
First world war hero.
Largely stock of Scottish, Irish
Polish, Russian, Slavic
Hungarian.
Post 1945 and 1956
And 1989.
Now a different box of CRAYOLAS.
Different colour, religion, music
Cooking, life histories.
Chinese, Somalian, Pakistani
Ethiopian, Guatamalan.
Rich and building upon itself.
New soft product involvement.
Insurances, software development
Accountants in consultation.
Lawyers…dime a dozen.
Dreaming up personal injuries.
Website champions.
Google headquarters.
Where went all those smoking
Factory chimneys? The smell of bacon?
Of cookies?
Scheme | AXBXXXBXCDEE ACFXDXGGDDFXX XDF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100 111 100010100 110011 10010011 1110 11110 10111010 101010 0100 10 0 10100111 100101010 101100 01010010 01001 10100101 1110010 010010100 0100010 101010 101100100 1100 1010 111110 1001001110 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 709 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 13, 3 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 191 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Written on April 06, 2023
Submitted by dougb.19255 on April 06, 2023
Modified by dougb.19255 on April 06, 2023
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