Analysis of Mama



Zakaj me nisi nikoli
vzela v dlani
Želela sem biti piščanček
v tvojih rokah
Zakaj me nisi nikoli
pogladila po laseh
ali povlekla zanje Da bi
vedela da sem živa
in malo ob tebi


Scheme AbccAdefe
Poetic Form Nonet (22%)
Metre 1111 111 111111 111 1111 111 101111 11110 01011
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 173
Words 34
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 137
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted by sonja_v on January 06, 2019

Modified on March 05, 2023

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sonja votolen

... poetry and prose writer, Slovenia, published eight books of poetry , a few drama texts and two prose works; also writing for different newspapers and magazines, she runs literary meetings, received awards for poetry in Italy , even the first international prize for poetry in Rome 2001. My poems in Italian were translated by Jolka Milič, a great Slovenian translator. 2019: two poetry books were published- Tudi brez peruti sem ptica ( in Slovenia) and Quando l'erba è giovane / Ko je trava mlada, 2019 ( in Italy, bilingual) more…

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