Analysis of A sacred tear
alexis karpouzos 1967 (Αθήνα)
And one day,
the sun stopped,
the rain stopped falling,
the flowers didn't look high,
the sky emptied of stars,
then a tear dripped from the heart
and became our breath.
We need a sacred tear,
before the fall.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
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Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
Metre | 011 011 01110 0101011 011011 1011101 001101 110101 0101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 204 |
Words | 39 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 162 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on August 29, 2019
Modified on March 14, 2023
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