Analysis of Conjunction
Benedictus Genty Bulu 1955 (Dinga)
(To my wife)
When you are
With me
I stay in
Because there is
No place for me
Anywhere else
I stay with you
Inside our house
Breathing
Your presence
But when you are
Not with me
I stay out
Because there is
No space left
Inside the house
I stay out
Because the house
Is full
Full of emptiness
Full of your absence.
Scheme | x abxCbxxdxe abFCxdFdxxe |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 111 11 110 0111 1111 101 1111 01101 10 110 1111 111 111 0111 111 0101 111 0101 11 11100 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 315 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 10, 11 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Written on March 04, 1995
Submitted by benbulu on November 08, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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