Analysis of Saša Milivojev - ON THE ICEBERG
Saša Milivojev 1986 (Serbia)
Perfection in feathers
A halo caught in black hair
My penitence eternal
As fear turns me
Into dust
My heart snaps
Like guitar strings
The body is not a body
As she won’t say
She also longs
To melt on the iceberg
| Scheme | ABCDEFGDHIJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010010 0101011 11010 1111 011 111 1011 01011010 1111 1101 111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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