Analysis of A WOMAN
a woman has just arrived
I know because of this tendency of mine to pursue utopies
a look becomes a thousand flashes of hearts
and each of them becomes you again
a woman just arrived
I know because of this tendency of mine to be invisible
time stops in it cradle when a woman arrives
a woman just arrived
I know from this fertile frequency
with what I see your smell
breaks off molecule by molecule
her voice and the moment becomes eternal
a woman just arrived
I know because I know
And there's no way that I don't know
for this time I know that a woman has just arrived
a woman has arrived
I know because there is nothing that looks like a woman when she comes
when she fills the space with herself
and how the horizon is lost far away
and it seems that she brings it when she comes.
a woman just arrived
I know because who has not seen a woman when she arrives
Scheme | abbx Acb Abxxc Adda abxxb Ab |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101101 110111100111011 01010101011 011101101 010101 11011110011110100 110110101001 010101 111110100 111111 1110110 01001001010 010101 110111 01111111 1111110101101 010101 11011110111010111 11101101 01001011101 0111111111 010101 110111110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 867 |
Words | 176 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 5, 4, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
This poem is hymn to all women.
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Written on September 26, 2011
Submitted by JcDelenc on July 28, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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