Analysis of Circatidal Rhythmus
Circatidal Rhythmus
By Xiaoyuan Yin
Blustering trees fell inward (into a circle, before the Wheel of Fortune), finally giving in
Leaving the boundless sapphire ocean to monsoons, which used to gnaw away
Chicories and cypress cones, with its icy fangs. It is written in detail in that manual
That the sun’s berthing impact on the earth’s shore, always so strong
Whips everything that gets in its way – So never throw open your curtains
On a summer morn. Just wait: sunlight climbed along within a shishi-odoshi
Named ‘the Scale of Everything’……
When its hollow tube filled, center of gravity past the pivot of a day,
It declines. No need to worry, the clocks have their own rhythms to toll
Through the dusk, when monks in ochre stroll across
To a stone arch. No peak time period for the world
In birthrate or death rate, but for champagne activity,
And language saturation. The high lightness of humankind’ s brain zones
Soars, and in the next second plunges. In the light of universe’s torch
And on the last beach, all dead crabs lie transparent and feathery, while the living ones of its kind
Synchronize their watches, with the moon.
Scheme | AB BCXXADXCXAXXADXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 111 1001110010100101110100100 1001010010101111101 1010111101111000101100 1011011011111 11011011110110110 1010111110101011 101110 1110111011001010101 10111110011111011 10111010101 1011111100101 0111111010100 0100100110110111 10001101000111001 010111111010010010101111 10110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 1,137 |
Words | 197 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 16 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 452 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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