Analysis of Come Home, Jenny



who will drink the Christmas wine
who will sit and Christmas dine
who will open presents Christmas morn
who will look in the stocking forlorn
with the look of "why me?"
when it's filled with just candy
who will be my loving sister
who sometimes acts like a blister
from life's burns so hard
please don't just send a card
you must show up with Christmas cheer
to laugh and be merry this blessed time of year
hear me, dear sister, one
I tell you this: Do not run
away this time of year
yes, the whole family wants you near
for it won't be the season at all
if you're stuck four hours away and only call
my sweet, shy little sister be
there for all of them, not just me.


Scheme AABBCCDDEEFFGGFFHHCC
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1110101 1110101 111010101 111001001 101111 1111110 11111010 10111010 11111 111101 11111101 11011011111 111101 1111111 011111 101100111 111101011 111110010101 11110101 11111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 648
Words 133
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 20
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 521
Words per stanza (avg) 132
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Submitted on June 26, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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