Analysis of The Ways Of Wind



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
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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