Analysis of Contemplation



the image of his back
broad and slightly bended
I’d already put
into the frame of future facts

because he would leave
today or tomorrow
I was going to miss him

in a rear view
this has been an anticipating
coming to terms
with a house without eyes

a manifestation
of our ongoing vainly tries


Scheme XXXX XXX XXXA XA
Poetic Form
Metre 010111 101010 10101 01011101 01111 01101 1110111 0011 11110100 1011 101011 00010 11010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 280
Words 55
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 4, 2
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 14
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Submitted by ludy_b on October 08, 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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