Analysis of Lay hands upon the wounds
James Williamson 1966 (United States)
lay hands upon the wounds
in the tangle of the mire
beggars, beggars
disjoin yourselves
put hunger above anger
and shatter
the needs, the needs
the waves crash on the rocks below the cliff
dispositioned on the ledge
hang in there, hang, hang
hang
on to the bosom feeder
the Fruadian slipper
it’s glass and it will shatter
upon delivery of the sender
scream, scream
lean back and up
the moon, the stars
(are veiled and hidden)
step back
and look without the foreground
at a lighted ship
a feast-a’hover
the scurvied lot of divers
long-winded swimmers all
oh, the sea, the sea
the gravity sea
Scheme | XABXAAX XXCCAAAA XXXXXXXABXD D |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 0010101 1010 101 1100110 010 0101 0111010101 1101 10111 1 1101010 0110 1101110 0101001010 11 1101 0101 11010 11 010101 10101 011 011110 110101 10101 01001 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 11, 1 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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