Analysis of Willows don’t Weep as much as me



“Can’t you hurry up?” he says as my ankle
Bone creaks (like a hinge)
Falls into the dewy grass—
Browns, decays, and rusts away.

I hopscotch to a weeping willow
and yank a vine from its frosted bough.  
Tourniquet my limb--
One foot dangles out of the grave

And sets into hues of sunrise,
Too early and too late to sleep,
Without curtain entrails falling from trees.

The sun burns my eyes.

“Can’t you see I’m dying?” I yell
To his mile-long shadow up-ahead.
“Can’t you see
​I’m dying?” the bluffs echo back to me.


Scheme XXXX XXXX AXX A XXBB
Poetic Form
Metre 11101111110 11101 1010101 1010101 1110101 010111101 00011 11101101 0101111 11001111 0110101011 01111 11111011 11111101 111 1100110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 546
Words 109
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 1, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on April 27, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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