Analysis of Whisky tears
Time and laughter disappear
On the crest of whisky tears
Christmas shimmers in the air
Season blest through whisky tears
Homeless people bundled close
Dispossessed by whisky tears
Windblown cairns of brick and glass
Coalesced from whisky tears
Kathy went to Midnight Mass
She confessed in whisky tears
| Scheme | XA XA XA BA BA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 101001 1011101 1010001 1011101 1010101 011101 111101 011101 101111 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 308 |
| Words | 54 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 51 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 10 |
About this poem
This poem originated as a Poetry in Motion work. The phrase "whisky tears" was among the word choices given (at that time I was unaware that the country music singer Dierks Bentley had used the phrase in one of his songs). The poem is a ghazal, with one word or phrase repeating itself throughout the poem. Ghazal is not one of the poetic forms listed, so I listed it as a sonnet.
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Written on December 01, 2005
Submitted by kpegan on March 11, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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