Analysis of How To: Make a Bed
how to make a bed
step 1: establish where your bed is
growing up my brother and i were attached at the hip.
he was truly my built in best friend.
growing up no one could make out what he was saying,
between his heavy speech impediment
and his infantile speech patterns
what he was saying was close to incomprehensible,
until he and i were about to be separated for bed
“katie cat!”
he’d yelp across the yard
as my mother was getting ready to put me to bed.
once my parents were asleep
he’d drag his spongebob comforter across the hall and
make himself comfortable
on my bedroom floor, right next to my crib.
once i was able to complete
step 2: pull your sheets taut under your mattress
my parents purchased my brother a bunk bed,
where he resided on the top bunk and i on the bottom bunk.
similar to the ranking my parents had for us.
our lives become increasingly more intertwined,
we had the same school friends,
the same church friends,
the same neighborhood friends.
we weren’t attached like sheets to a mattress,
i was in his shadow, like how i was on the bottom bunk
step 3: realize you’re not making your bed
it was an idle tuesday,
i was making his bed
as i was pulling the sheets over my head
i was making his bed
i put myself in his shadow by residing on his bottom bunk.
step 4: relocate
that wednesday, i decided to sleep in my own bed.
my parents kept that bunk bed for 5 years,
yearning,
praying,
begging,
for my brother and i to come back to that closeness
we never did
step 5: repeat process
from siblings, to roommates, to partners, to spouses, to ex’s
repeat this process until finding yourself.
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Metre | 11101 10101111 10111001001101 111011011 1011111111110 0111010100 01100110 1111011100100 011010011110011 101 110101 11101101011111 1110001 111110001010 1011000 111111111 11110101 1111110110 11010110011 1101010110110101 1001010110111 1010101001001 110111 0111 01101 1101111010 11011111110101 110111011 1111010 111011 11110011011 111011 111011101011101 1010 110110110111 110111111 10 10 10 1110011111110 1101 1011 1101111011011 0111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,648 |
Words | 341 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 4, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8, 3 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
This poem was inspired by How To Make Perfect Instant Coffee Poem by Jemarie Ragudo; it is one of nostalgia and reflection.
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