Analysis of A Poet
To be a poet is to remain forever young
To understand the sun before the scholar's words
To be able to sleep and to sleep again
On another planet in a secret meadow
To embrace the universe with tenderness
and to relish the impossible happiness of some crazy dream
To keep doing tirelessly and always to welcome
every minute with an open mind
To be a poet is to dialogue with shadows and lights
To begin a bright day when darkness hangs heavy on your hands
To be a poet is to read new words on every face
To be a poet is to be able to say and to glorify
To probe the abyss of the heart
To love without constraints, to pine for love
To be a poet is to recognize oneself in the present moment
It's to be fully alive
To be a poet is to stretch out the arms to life
To say life when the rabble death cries
To be a poet is to be born again every second
To be a magnificent tree in the valley of peace
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011010101 10101010101 11101101101 10101000101 1010101100 01100010010011101 111010001110 1001011101 1101011101101 101011110110111 110101111111001 1101011110110110 11001101 1101011111 1101011101001010 1111001 1101011110111 111101011 1101011110110010 11001001001011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 910 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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