Analysis of Easter



Plum tree blossoms break free
From deep purple leaves
Floating
On a breeze so still
The skin thin petals are all it could carry.

But it stops my breath,
Which falls to my feet
Cradled in the petals' pink palms.

Easter morning,
Under the only Sun I know,
I am caught up and moved by the thought
Of a simple plum tree
Writing something
Which seems so real to me
In pink hieroglyphics
On a slate of green
St. Augustine.


Scheme AXBXA XXX BXXABAXCC
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 11101 10 10111 01110111110 11111 11111 1001011 1010 10010111 111101101 101011 1010 111111 01010 10111 110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 400
Words 80
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 3, 9
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 110
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on April 01, 2023

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