Analysis of Ivory scrimshaw
Ivory scrimshaw
Carved in delicate lines
dissolving music of silent wounds
to mystic chords of memory
Through the valley of our lives
the clock stands silent on the wall
arousing breath of the soul
The roots and leaves that quiver on the vine
transcend the mysteries abound
communicate compositions of symphonies
of the world within
The crumbling dust beneath the desert winds
echo sounds expanded in silence of our lives
cold marbled eyes translucent
gaze inward to the principle of our being
from which we struggle the paths
Of many lives
Scheme | XXXX AXX XXXX XAXXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001 101001 010101101 11011100 10101101 01110101 0101101 0101110101 01010001 0100101100 10101 01001010101 1010100101101 1101010 1101010011010 1111001 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 6 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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