Analysis of Christmas Day With Stanley
'Tis Christmas Eve, I'm in my living room
All by myself in this retirement home;
No better off than wife who's in her tomb,
Won't see my kids nor theirs; I live in Nome.
I stare across the room at Christmas tree
All bare, no tinsel, lights nor ornaments
But what is there to do, it has to be,
I'm stricken with arthritic ligaments.
My thoughts drift back to Christmas in the past;
Remembered grandpa, was arthritic too,
Consuming eggnogs till he drank his last
And staggered, felled the tree, adornments flew.
Though shed some tears, I'm happy I could reach
Another Christmas Day with Stanley Creech.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1101101101 1110101001 1101111001 1111111101 1101011101 1111011100 1111111111 1101010100 1111110001 010110101 010111111 01010111 1111110111 0101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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