Analysis of Uniqueness

Ludy Bührs

Artists and poets of our time,
they paint, they draw, they rhyme.
It has been done for thousands of years,
expressions of love and deepest fears.

So how can one claim nowadays
others are copying his or her ways?
No style can be presently owned in poetry,
It already existed, long before you and me.

Uniqueness lies in what we reveal,
the way we show emotions, deal
with our imperfect language tools
aiming for niches in poetry pools.

Scheme AABB CCDD EEFF
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 100101101 111111 111111011 010110101 1111110 1011001101 111110010100 1010010101101 010101101 01110101 110010101 1011001001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 433
Words 78
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 114
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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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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