Analysis of A god
Roberto Suárez Torres 1983 (New York)
Through window panes clear he will see a pond,
yet it is too late to play in the snow,
for in pitch black twilight rare glow
paths the moonlight cold might bid for you fond.
If ever by clouds, hexed, in humid dews,
when the waterfall looks like a cracked pitcher,
and boughs lose those fragrant songs that chitter,
thriving in fields bovine jaws won't chew;
on the door is heard the tap...and the sigh,
yet key in my hand no glance will approach
to open narrow gates of heaven nigh;
nor schemes as a plot grown have we to broach;
warm rays fade away gifts winter gives prime
just as lush groves sacred it dares encroach.
Scheme | ABBA XCCX DED EXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 1111111001 1011111 101111111 1101110101 1010110110 0111101110 10011111 101110101 1101111101 1101011101 1110111111 1110111011 1111101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 623 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Written on August 17, 2022
Submitted by robertrad2021 on August 17, 2022
Modified by robertrad2021 on March 26, 2023
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