Analysis of The Slant Bridge
Roberto Suárez Torres 1983 (New York)
Once an early morn I saw a slant bridge,
the whispers of rivulets that echo
and narrow at the top, like a lone ridge
in some far distance of silent meadows;
merely waiting for the foghorn to sound,
hops a rabbit that lives in a mucky burrow;
and what honey blooms from plots of the ground;
thereon coarse wings buzz like crowded hives,
where a sleepless owl and each dimple frowned;
in a current ocean, waves of a tide
can be heard like the stone in an early sky.
Scheme | ABA XCB CXC XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111011 01011110 0101011011 011101101 101010111 101011001010 0110111101 011111101 1010101101 0010101101 11110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on May 13, 2022
Submitted by robertrad2021 on May 13, 2022
Modified by robertrad2021 on June 08, 2022
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