Analysis of Our Cruel Kind



On airborne waves human emotions float
in directions guided from high above.
Foul voices widely spread a dark loath
of all strangers, promote but selfish love.
People adrift the hate-armed forces shove
into corners where it’s hard to survive,
no hope finding what is needed from life.
Wild animals choose righteously their prey.
Their stomachs full, only to mate they strife.
Our kind is false, pretense rips many a day.   


Scheme ABCBBDEFEF
Poetic Form Etheree  (30%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 111100101 0010101101 110101011 1110011101 1001011101 0110111101 1110111011 1100110011 1101101111 101110111001
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 426
Words 77
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 339
Words per stanza (avg) 70
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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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