Analysis of Two Worlds
And what would you be in the other one?
The same engine, that stick of grass, the
Same smoke rising over town? A shadow
In a window, composing its
Answers to July, and August,
And the entire beguiling season?
What would you step into and how do you
Imagine it? Colorful, as flower prints
Or more like a negative with all its secrets
Cryptically encoded?
And though you have watched one or two
Close friends fade slowly into the August light,
And imagined a hush and a slight swaying,
You think it may also be
Loud and garish and unbearable.
But always it must be in August,
Because August sways and leans its back
On doors, and on the cottonwoods, issuing
Its goodbyes day after day, into a light
That has begun to recede from this one.
Scheme | AXXXBA CXXXCDEXX BXEDA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 0111100101 011011110 111010101 00100101 1011010 0001001010 1111010111 01011001101 111010011110 1010 01111111 11110010101 00100100110 1111101 101000100 11111010 011010111 1101010100 1111010101 1101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 752 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 9, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 194 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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