Analysis of North of a rural town
On a humped stone bridge
north of a rural town
beneath the green hills
at the walls end
Where a valley strewn
and a glacier dragged
forked through deaf dunes
in an anxious sweep
The scattered granite spits
above on a green sleeve
soft splints of sand stone
almost hidden in moist moss
Where a bard cries tears
into hands like scratched wood
whiskey drops splashing
on his hobnailed boots
Crying for the wind to stop
and leave him less reminded
but the daisy shins shimmer
as the thistle weeds wave
COPYRIGHT 2013 CLIFTON REDMOND
| Scheme | XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10111 110101 01011 1011 10101 00101 1111 01101 010101 011011 11111 110011 10111 011111 10110 1111 1010111 0111010 1010110 101011 101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 527 |
| Words | 95 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on March 01, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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