Analysis of To the Old Stems
Navya Karey 1998 (India)
O' deep red flowers amid of greens and browns
Speaking gently to the wings that reach thee
Calling my name from the height
To show thy beauty, thy freshness
But, mine heart blinded to see thy beauty,
And glanced at these weak browns;
Hugging each other to live more
Weak and pale like mine broken core.
O' what beauty lay in these browns,
Thy scrapped pile seems like a beautiful brown gown.
Thy union formed a message to my world
Is that letter a hidden gold?
Thy browns speaketh to my core
Caress of your falling leaves bussed my cheek
How mine soul hearkened thy brokenness
From this single buss?
Thy beauty looked through my soul,
Thy brokenness reached my heart,
Thy life resembled my life,
Our beauty lurked in our hearts.
Scheme | ABXC BADD AXXX DXAC XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (45%) |
Metre | 11110011101 1010101111 1011101 11110110 1111011110 011111 10110111 10111101 11101011 11111010011 1101010111 11100101 111111 0111101111 111111 11101 1101111 11111 1101011 101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on February 23, 2021
Modified by NavyaKarey2510 on February 23, 2021
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