Analysis of Thank You
If you find yourself half naked
and barefoot in the frosty grass, hearing,
again, the earth's great, sonorous moan that says
you are the air of the now and gone, that says
all you love will turn to dust,
and will meet you there, do not
raise your fist. Do not raise
your small voice against it. And do not
take cover. Instead, curl your toes
into the grass, watch the cloud
ascending from your lips. Walk
through the garden's dormant splendor.
Say only, thank you.
Thank you.
Scheme | ABCCDEFEGHIJKK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101110 010010110 01011100111 11011010111 1111111 0111111 111111 111011011 11001111 0101101 0101111 10101010 11011 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 475 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 369 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
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Written on 2006
Submitted by Drone232 on April 28, 2022
Modified on April 30, 2023
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