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 |
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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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