Analysis of Digging to the Limit
Today’s dubitable Easter light
had me going outside, to see
if some gardening would help
to make the day a little brighter.
From the high grown pile,
where I had been massing cuts
and plant waste, broken branches
of the pruned butterfly-bush
had slipped off onto the pavement.
So I took a shovel to rearrange it
in a corner, for more support.
But when digging in the bottom part,
where things had nearly composted,
a small settlers’ panic broke loose
in the form of running centipedes
and a loud and anxious buzzing,
of what I guess were bumblebees,
rudely disturbed in their sleep.
The only thing that seemed
appropriate to me, was to apologize
and put their roof back in place,
so the damage could be mended.
After all, I had been inviting them
to make this waste-hill their home
by leaving it unattended. The sun
then smiled from behind the clouds,
while the buzzing stopped, and
my intrusion ended.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 11101111 1110011 110101010 10111 1111101 0111010 101101 11110010 1110101011 00101101 111000101 111101 01101011 0011101 00101010 111101 1001011 010111 01001111010 0111101 10101110 1011110101 1111111 1101001001 1110101 101010 101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 881 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 9, 10 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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