Analysis of A Bowl of Glass



Imagine,
picture, if you will,
a glass bowl,
clear crystal --
a bubble.
Create, therein,
an atmosphere,
diaphanous,
of water.
Pebble its bottom
with small shards:
amber, flint,
obsidian and cloudy quartz.
Introduce a coral branch
and set a sprig,
dark green,
of kelpy moss.
Disperse -- suspend --
a fishy population.
Put in motion
this tableau:
habitants in bowl-bounded ocean --
flashing mauve, bright blues,
pink, red, emerald and silver hues,
and yellow.
Regard.
And stow immobile bones
bleached shiny white
below.


Scheme ABCDDEFGHIJKLMNOPQAARASSRTUVR
Poetic Form
Metre 010 10111 011 110 010 0101 110 0100 110 10110 111 101 01000101 010101 0101 11 111 0101 010010 1010 101 1011010 10111 11100101 010 01 010101 1101 01
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 489
Words 83
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 29
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 399
Words per stanza (avg) 83
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 08, 2023

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L. Larry Amadore

A word lover who enjoys beautiful poetry of all genres and responds with admiration to fresh and felicitous phrases. [Retired manufacturing/production control mgr./marketing manager/financial analyst. USAF veteran; lived in US, Mexico, Germany, Turkey.] more…

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