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 |
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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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