Analysis of Heaping
What came to me
this early spring morning
is the way the mountains
are sliding sideways
along the horizon,
their tan-gold shapes
having come unstuck,
their time
no longer standing
still, the serrated edge
of distance
they had been before
now blurred, and blurred
too the eyes now
peeping at them, unblinking
at--what?--their
geomorphic essence,
but, suddenly
rocked by a pair of birds
seamlessly tracing each
other's zigs and zags:
life's instincts all
but unknowable
to rock
heaping upon rock.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHBIJKLMBNJAOPQRSTT |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (44%) |
Metre | 1111 110110 101010 1101 010010 1111 10101 11 11010 10101 110 11101 1101 1011 10111 111 110 1100 110111 100101 10101 1101 10100 11 10011 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 512 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 398 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
About this poem
Written just after dawn as I looked west out of my bedroom window from our house in Patagonia, Arizona.
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