Analysis of Practicing His Craft
An herbaceous arbor flanks
the harbor where he labors
fitting words to spaces -- blanks
he fills, erases. He savors
bits of meaning, sculpting sound
to logic's shape, annealing word
and image, polishing a verbal mound
congealing on his pad. A bird chirps.
Song distracts. A moment's lapse.
He compares the bird's with his own work,
considers form and content, sees the gaps,
tosses his dead page into the water's murk.
Scheme | ABABCDCEFGFG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 0101110 1011101 11010110 1110101 1110101 0101000101 1111011 1010101 101011111 0101010101 10111010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 407 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 329 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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