Analysis of The Shop

The Shop 1962 (Florence, Oregon)



My heart is a shop,
I give love inside,
All the canisters filled;
All the shelves stocked high.
So I open the door,
And see people pass;
But no one comes in,
They just look through the glass

My shop is so lonely,
For my stock is alive;
All the canisters bursting,
Still people pass by

The shop I now close,
Then break into tears;
For no one's come in,
Through these many years.

The shop is still closed,
All the stock on shelves;
All the canisters kept,
Alone; To myself

Until the day,
Someone knocks on my door.
To take all my stock,
And empty my store


Scheme XXXABCDC XXXA XXDX XXXX XBXB
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 11101 101001 10111 111001 01101 11110 111101 111110 111101 1010010 11011 01111 11011 11110 11101 01111 10111 101001 0111 0101 11111 11111 01011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 558
Words 133
Sentences 4
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 8, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 85
Words per stanza (avg) 22

About this poem

Written May 1, 1980 by William R Scharen Jr

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Written on May 01, 1980

Submitted on July 16, 2023

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