Analysis of poetry
sweet birdsong in winds of rocky mountain heat,
a cry for solace without silence,
freedom without loneliness-
and I, a human without a song,
echo back a bark of longing,
rough cut timbre fallen on
a plain of tranquility, showering deep discord-
gravitybound envy for tender slices of air,
wing tip mast mastery of the breeze,
wind ripped existence outside foot by foot ramblings,
to be excluded from the weight of the earthen
and cut up, dart out, be gone
buoyant on a whim-
stuck pressing on gravel beds,
stumbling on stones,
climbing heavybreath leadenlegged to summits
capped from the ever above-
limitation lamentations:
the cry of ascending
without the rising thereof.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIBJKLMNOPBEP |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 1101110101 011100110 1001100 010100101 10101110 1110101 0110100100110 1101101011 111100101 11010111111 110101011010 0111111 10101 1101101 10011 1011110 1101001 0101 011010 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 543 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on August 12, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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