Analysis of The Timeless Taste of Ginger



He climbs trees
falls like the leaves
crisp and careless
He gathers snow from the heavens
and sets it at our feet
and takes root in my home
in my sanctuary
and while the pitiless gold hem
of his mund and handiwork
 of his juba illuminate chains of pearls and rose petals
that adorn the hallway
Will that shroud the coconut liquor breath
my children have come to gnaw on?


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLM
Poetic Form
Metre 111 1101 1010 11011010 0111101 011011 01100 01010011 111010 111001001110110 10101 111010101 11011111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 358
Words 70
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 299
Words per stanza (avg) 70
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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