Analysis of Plague Doctor Mask
Ken Carroll 1957 (Biloxi)
My love
we fear the corona
my lover
let us wear
our plague doctor
masks to bed again
You look at me
with eyes like two ribbons
of warm absinthe
We fear for our life
from our life
the whole span
of it glistens
To protect us
light the candles
spray on some
moonlight
Let us recite
some old biblical
verses
Some say they
still hear the screams
where plague doctors
walked in bird like masks
where no birds sing...
Copyright © Ken Carroll | Year Posted 2021
| Scheme | XXAXAX XBX CCXB XXXD DXX XXXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11 110010 110 111 10110 11101 1111 111110 1110 111101 1101 011 111 1011 1010 111 1 1101 11100 10 111 1101 1110 10111 1111 10110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 4, 4, 3, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 26 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
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