Analysis of The Ways Of Wind
Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)
I wonder when they’ll stop
those weeping-wind chimes
the neighbor brought from the flea market
that market must have been stocked by
the shambling corpses of the damned
The wind shouldn’t weep, my child
or be redolent with sweet decay
no notes of suffering should it bear
to the waiting ears of the faithless
A breeze shouldn’t whine through
the clenched finger-bones of furies
clutching, clutching for late-life
dreaming of regrets undying
A draft, though.
That is the zephyr of low, creeping things
and the terror-films of deepest sleep
A cutting, razored gust of the profane
I wonder when they’ll stop
those weeping-wind chimes
the neighbor brought from the flea market
Scheme | ABCxx xxxb xbxx xxxx ABC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 110111 11011 010110110 11011111 0110101 011111 111001101 111100111 10101101 01111 0110111 1010111 10101010 011 1101011101 001011101 010111001 110111 11011 010110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 700 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 4, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on February 19, 2022
Submitted by BradyB999 on March 14, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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