Analysis of Interface



a frown chilled my colors
bleak silence shoaled me
denial had shattered windows
and callously broken my view

frozen tears I caught
deprived of any warmth
to surface the regrets

how deeply I miss
those flows of bygone days

from tear to smile and
finding back again


Scheme XXXX XXX XX XX
Poetic Form
Metre 011110 11011 01011010 01001011 10111 011101 110001 11011 11111 11110 10101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 253
Words 47
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 2, 2
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by ludy_b on October 23, 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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