Analysis of The Wind and the Trees

Tim Strauss 1994 (N.C)



The trees rustled an English whisper I heard so perfectly well
They were magical messengers sent to deliver a lengthy wordy spell
My ears could hear, my eyes could see, but I simply could not believe
The words they wrote right through my pen were so beautifully conceived

I checked my mind deep inside the secret place that is my home
Where memories make the masks on the wall and all my thoughts roam
There seemed to be a streaming in of divine words and notions
Whatever the case, I accept my fate as an agent of poetic potions

This world is splattered with mysteries abounding for you to contemplate
Through trial and error, you eventually find you need not investigate
Complications arise when we try to find the wrong way from the right
To ponder each feather on your wings all day will only delay your flight

There's a time in our lives when everything fine seems to change its tune
When the car breaks down and the rain clouds around release a monsoon
And during the storm that pounds on my door and threatens like no other
I try hard to recall that each raindrop that falls will quench the thirst of another

So if I'm down and out with nowhere to run while stuck inside my cell
And I begin to doubt the nature around that asks but never tells
I think of the wind that swirls up dreams and rustles the trees with joy
And remember those trees that waved to me when I was just a little boy


Scheme AAXX BBCC DDEE FFGG AXHH
Poetic Form Quatrain  (60%)
Metre 011110101111001 1010010011010010101 1111111111101101 011111110110001 111110101011111 110010110101111 111101001011010 1001101111110101010 11110110001011110 1100101010001111010 0100111111011101 110110111111100111 1010101110111111 1011100110101001 01001111110101110 111111111111011010 1111011111110111 01011101001111101 111011111010111 001011111111110101
Characters 1,405
Words 273
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 56
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 225
Words per stanza (avg) 53

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I wrote this poem last night and am happy to have done so.

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