Analysis of The Bowl of Ice Cream
Laurel M. Lee 1970 (Anchorage, AK)
T’was an evil tempter proffering
This thing I should avoid.
Yet, again I took this offering
Excuses then, employed.
You see, my meal left lingering
Its alliaceous taste.
I couldn’t sit malingering
And acted thus in haste.
It conquered me, this hankering
For creamy sweet delight.
To this defense I’m anchoring,
Thus absolved, I took a bite.
| Scheme | ABAB ACAC ADAD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11101100 111101 101111100 010101 11111100 111 1111 010101 11011100 110101 11011100 1011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 348 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
During COVID, I got into a bad habit of eating ice cream in the evenings. It was always harder to avoid if we'd had something with garlic or onions for dinner. That was a hard habit to break!
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