Analysis of Letters
Naomi Sara Buote 1968 (Prince Edward Island)
we
use to write
each other letters,
encyclopedias of our love
today
a trickle of blood
makes its way
out of me
each time
a silent vowel dies
at the end of the words
alone and invisible
you look at me
like a pinprick,
your flinty eyes
cut my wings
the silence sealed
between us
on a war footing
we eat our soup,
tomato and alphabet,
heads down,
swallowing our red letters
all our words
lying in bulk and rotting
in the pit of our stomachs
Scheme | AXBX CXCAXDEX AXDX XXF XXXB EFX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 111 11010 001001101 01 01011 111 111 11 010101 101101 0100100 1111 1010 1101 111 0101 011 10110 11101 01010 11 10010110 1101 1001010 00111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 442 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 8, 4, 3, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Written on September 01, 2022
Submitted by buotenaomi on September 19, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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