Your Noble Cleanliness

1                   For I am a janitor

2                   My nostrils stained with the scent of ammonia and urinal blocks.

3                   My hands wrinkled by damp plastic gloves.

4                   My Windex is like my sword.

5                   With it I fight my battles against uncleanliness.

6                   Clean the windows, clean the counters, clean the toilets.

7                   Clean it all.

8                   With my squire of supplies by my noble side no fight against filth is lost.

9                   Empowered, I grab the black bags from the roll

10                 and fill the emptied trash cans with a fresh layer.

11                 I make the old look new,

12                 it is all in a day’s work

13                 of such an influential cavalier like me.

14                The door knobs holler “disinfect us!”

15                And the floor bellows “make me shine!”

16                And I, such a gallant night, run quickly to the needy.

17                As anyone could see,

18                without my prodigious courage

19                the world would be a dirtier place to live.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1.      Line number 2 and 3 show imagery:

I did this right of the bat to grab the attention and kind of make the audience think that being a janitor really can be fascination. I did this by adding a lot of words that evoke senses.

 

2.      Line 4 is a simile:

It is a simile because I use “like” to compare Windex and a sword. I do this to set the poem up for my overall analogy. (See number 7.)

 

3.      Lines 6 and 7 show anaphora:

It is anaphora because I repeat the word “clean” after every comma. I did this to show the vast amount of thing I clean. On the last time I use “clean” I made it a short sentence to put emphasis on the fact that I clean everything and that’s why I am so powerful like a knight would be.

 

4.      Line 8 shows archaic diction:

I use words that would be used long ago like “squire and noble”. The way this particular line is written is not necessarily Shakespearean language, but my whole poem does have a hint of this type of diction (I have a few learned and popular words like prodigious and cavalier).

 

5.      Line 9 is inversion

I use the word empowered to begin the sentence. I did this to put emphasis on the job that I have in hand.

 

6.      Lines 14 and 15 show personification

Personification was shown because the inanimate objects (being the door knobs and the floor) are screaming to me. I did this to make it seem like my noble deeds were more influential because I was doing things for people like objects in need.

 

7.      My whole poem was an analogy:

The analogy was that being a janitor is like being a noble knight. I did this to give my poem an overall tone of mythical. I also did this because I thought it was funny because being a janitor is like the opposite of being a knight so I though saying the two were like would be interesting.