Analysis of A Calendar Page Torn



The chest torn open, the breast on fire.
It is a choice of days we make.
Days when only the vivid world comes to the eye –
And eventually –
Through the soul and onto the face.
That state of beingness where
The shooter & his target are one.
(Now I come to rest on coral
And deeply do I sink in.
Then as profoundly I am expelled
And as mist am carried over the sea
To light upon a cloud
Or the wing of a dove
Or perhaps
 To be inhaled
Into another soul
Such as yours.)


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJDKLMNOP
Poetic Form
Metre 0111001110 11011111 111001011101 001000 10101001 11111 01011011 11111110 0101110 110101101 0111101001 110101 101101 101 1101 010101 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 454
Words 99
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 356
Words per stanza (avg) 98
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Submitted on June 03, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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