Analysis of Deliver
Between the hours of five and seven,
A mezzotint of sky makes green
The dipping boughs of a catalpa tree.
And when the neighbor clicks on night,
Yellow switches to yellow by the light
Of a fading blue outside.
Between the hours of five and seven.
Too many halfway hours
That make the birds croon.
One life becomes so contingent
On another, you'd think it didn't know
Any other way to be itself.
As when I hold out my palms
Because there are flocks that come to pass
Upon the one that counts them,
I need the birds to come. I need
To know what to do with my hands.
Scheme | Axx bbx Axx xxx xxx xx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101011010 011111 01011011 01010111 1010110101 1010111 0101011010 1101110 11011 11011010 1010111101 101011101 1111111 011111111 0101111 11011111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 2 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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