Analysis of Why we made restaurant reservations



When the silverware stayed up late
to catch us cheating on them-
only throwing things that leave dents, like
potted plants and tea kettles and
crockpots and saucepans. The spoons wallowed,
the forks shrieked, all our butter knives silently
seethed. They each turned scarlet, eroding to
rust, so we do not have supper at the table
anymore, not unless
we must.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 1010111 1111011 101011111 10101100 1010110 011110101100 1111100101 111111101010 01101 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 349
Words 61
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 288
Words per stanza (avg) 61
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Submitted on August 30, 2016

Modified on May 03, 2023

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