Analysis of Dying Friend
Daniel Kelty 1963 (St. Louis, MO)
A Dying Friend
Is like wheat ripening alone
near a stand of oaks,
with only the wind to stroke
its back on the quiet days.
Now in August even the raccoons
have turned their backs on the fields,
heading for water. A car
glides by imposing its monochrome blankness
onto the moment that the seeds
begin to loosen in their husks,
as if getting ready to fly.
Scheme | X XAXX XXX AXX X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 11110001 10111 1100111 1110101 101010001 1111101 1011001 110101101 10010101 01110011 11101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 360 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 3, 3, 1 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
Publisthed in "Off the Coast" literary journal
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