Analysis of Savings



this sealed
with a cork
enclosed
it stores

distressed words
without any compassion
impressing the shrinking heart
infused as is this mournfulness dip

- instant weak moments -

the label of its easy to use
lament refrigerating storage jar
for those overly happy years
when sadness no longer is
and tears are missed


Scheme XXXX XXXX X XXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 11 101 01 11 011 0110010 0100101 0111111 10110 010111011 011101 11100101 1101101 0111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 698
Words 56
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 1, 5
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 65
Words per stanza (avg) 13
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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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