Analysis of An ode of love
Shane Malema 1999 (Louis Trichardt Memorial Hospital)
In the dead of night
you became a chandelier,
that made me blind to darkness.
It was then that I knew, you were the finest poetry of God. Like clay in the potter's hand,
you mirror(d) divine art.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tanka (60%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 00111 1010001 1111110 11111110010100111100101 1101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 195 |
| Words | 41 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
About this poem
A love poem, soothing words to your ears & yet another epistle from heaven's marketplace of words.
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