Analysis of Exposing Cards



put a stop to the played-out
chances
I want
to know
things will be alright

it would be great
for you
for me

we could finally
trust each other

so lay your cards open now
and I’ll show you mine

no more
push
hunt
shoot

we’ll be offering each other ten
and giving peace a hand


Scheme XXXXX XXA AX XX XXXX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011011 10 11 11 1111 1111 11 11 11100 1110 1111101 01111 11 1 1 1 111001101 010101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 263
Words 56
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 5, 3, 2, 2, 4, 2
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 36
Words per stanza (avg) 9
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Submitted by ludy_b on May 16, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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