Analysis of The Shop
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 |
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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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