Analysis of First Contact
Robert Graham 1946 (Glasgow)
A silent virgin lake, windfall trees
where basking snakes uncoil in thin surprise,
a mystery of bugs convene to spread
their moving blanket, buzz and terrorize.
A bark canoe glides snaking through the shallows,
cuts a trough. Lost in wild surmise
belief invades the wilderness; hidden
from sight a painted face, dark wary eyes.
| Scheme | ABXB ABXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 01010111 110110101 0100110111 110101010 0101110101 10110101 0101010010 1101011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 328 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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