Analysis of In Memoriam Mae Noblitt
A R Ammons 1926 – 2001
This is just a place:
we go around, distanced,
yearly in a star's
atmosphere, turning
daily into and out of
direct light and
slanting through the
quadrant seasons: deep
space begins at our
heels, nearly rousing
us loose: we look up
or out so high, sight's
silk almost draws us away:
this is just a place:
currents worry themselves
coiled and free in airs
and oceans: water picks
up mineral shadow and
plasm into billions of
designs, frames: trees,
grains, bacteria: but
is love a reality we
made here ourselves,
and grief, did we design
that, or do these,
like currents, whine
in and out among us merely
as we arrive and go:
this is just a place:
the reality we agree with,
that agrees with us,
outbounding this, arrives
to touch, joining with
us from far away:
our home which defines
us is elsewhere but not
so far away we have
forgotten it:
this is just a place.
Scheme | Axx bcd xxx bxa eAf xxd cgx hfi gih xAj xxj exx xxA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 110110 10001 1010 1001011 0110 1010 10101 101110 11010 11111 11111 111101 11101 101001 10101 010101 110010 101101 0111 101001 110101 11001 011101 1111 1101 00101110 110101 11101 0101011 10111 1101 11101 11101 101101 11111 110111 0101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 862 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 13 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 39 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 29, 2023
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