Analysis of The Cook May Go Home
The last of the bread bakes silently in the oven,
as feelings stir warmly inside my heart
The smell and the aroma, an invitation to greatness,
as the temperature rises—announcing I’m done
Loaves cook in the silence of a sweeter deliverance,
letters rising as words, their meaning devours
The invitations to the meal have all been sent out,
and responded to
The cook may go home, the feast now leavened,
has begun
(Telluride Colorado: 10:00 p.m. Sheridan Hotel, May, 1996, rewritten August, 2011)
Scheme | AX XA XX XX XA X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110111000010 1101100111 01000101010110 101001001011 11001010100100 101011110010 001010111111 00101 0111101110 101 100101110001101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 499 |
Words | 85 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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