Analysis of Do Stones Feel?
Do stones feel?
Do they love their life?
Or does their patience drown out everything else?
When I walk on the beach I gather a few
white ones, dark ones, the multiple colors.
Don’t worry, I say, I'll bring you back, and I do.
Is the tree as it rises delighted with its many
branches,
each one like a poem?
Are the clouds glad to unburden their bundles of rain?
Most of the world says no, no, it’s not possible.
I refuse to think to such a conclusion.
‘Too terrible it would be, to be wrong.
Scheme | XXX AXA XXX X X XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 11111 1111011101 11110111001 1111010010 110111111011 10111100101110 10 111010 1011101011011 110111111100 10111110010 1100111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 501 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 1, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
The poet is expressing the idea that, a world in which Mother Nature is not conscious of itself isn't difficult to reject.
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