Analysis of Orange Speckled Swing
I’ve swung on this swing before
It is old and covered in orange rust specks
The hinges squeak but only on the way down
The wooden seat is filled with splinters
So why haven’t they fixed it?
Maybe the orange rust specks give the swing a more vibrant color.
Perhaps the children have made a song to the tune of the squeak.
Or the splinters on the wooden seat are not that dangerous.
I don’t want to swing on a different swing.
I refuse to swing on a different swing.
Scheme | ABCBDEFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101 11101001011 01011101011 01011111 111111 1001011101011010 010101101101101 10110101111100 11111101001 10111101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 474 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 366 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
About this poem
I grew up in Curitiba, Brazil, and moved to the U.S when I was 11. My childhood feels like a book where some of the chapters are there but some chapters are completely blank. I remember my brother, my cousins, and I would go to this park by my house and we would play all day. This place had a mystic quality to it that I can't quite explain; maybe it's because it was surrounded by the most beautiful forest. There was a swing in this park and I guess I just wrote about the swing. The poem has a profound and personal meaning but it wouldn't make sense for me to sit here and digest the poem for other people's interpretation. more »
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