Analysis of A Mind for Stories

Ian McCleary 1992 (Morris Plains, NJ)



The garden gnome followed the squirrel across the road thinking he was real. But then a car drove by and smashed his head and...
The child saw disapproval from their parents
... it's getting late and it's almost your bedtime.


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Tercet 
Metre 01011001001011011111011101110 01100101110 110101111
Characters 226
Words 41
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 59
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 176
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Written on April 26, 2022

Submitted by imccleary on April 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ian McCleary

I am a thirty year old poet from New Jersey. I write observational poems and poems on the state of human creativity and the power of human creativity that is undermined by the corporate structure of our society. more…

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