Analysis of A Sonnet for Alan Kurdi
Corneigh Hoff 1950 (Assendelft)
one day you wrote your name upon the strand
a while, there was the imprint of your face
little sneakers denting the brackish sand
the sea touching your brow, a diadem of lace
the sweetest boy that ever reached the shore
so beautiful, so wonderful, now dead
you were alive, full-coloured, hours before
the wind roughly and softly made your bed
I swore, we swore, never to forget:
Alan, you’ll be the difference, yes, you will
we loved so deep, the moment that we met
then we unmet, as you lay there, so still
but came the waves and washed you away
but came the waves and washed you away
Scheme | abab cdcd efef GG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110101 0111001111 1010100101 01101101011 0101110101 1100110011 10011101001 0110010111 111110101 10110100111 1111010111 1101111111 110101101 110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
About this poem
Inspired by Edmund Spenser, I dedicate this to Alan Kurdi, who, when he washed ashore in 2015, upset the world, causing mankind to agree that this would ever happen again; but came the waves...
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