Analysis of Geese



They are over the marsh now
An umbrella of feathers and cries
It's almost more
Than I can hold
The way reeds bend
To spy the shadows
Of their own swaying
They and the fading geese
One string
Inviting the dark to dance
To sift from the branches
Of the actual
To surround me like breath returning
When everything else is gone


Scheme ABCDEFGHGIJKGL
Poetic Form
Metre 1110011 101011001 111 1111 0111 1101 11110 100101 11 0100111 111010 10100 101111010 110111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 310
Words 62
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 261
Words per stanza (avg) 62
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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