Analysis of In and Out of Darkness



heavy these loads weigh
gradually poured into me
the pressure so strong
black holes now form
and light will be gone
some strength still lasts
thanks to long lost suns
I’ve seen set boldly
in their days swallowed
by the depth of night

still I process the lead granules
but hurry and start shining
long languished super nova
pull back my tomorrow   
split this earthly spite
and bring new splendor in


Scheme XAXXXXXAXB XXXXBX
Poetic Form
Metre 10111 10001011 01011 1111 01111 1111 11111 11110 01110 10111 1110110 1100110 1101010 11101 11101 011100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 399
Words 71
Sentences 1
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 6
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 162
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted by ludy_b on September 15, 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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