Analysis of Stationary



How to change fixed convictions
Show the things from another side
When people keep claiming to be right
While in fact, with their every stride
They sink into circling reflections
Following a forever narrowing path
With all sight besides it blocked
Their thinking staying sternly locked
Into this single direction, docked
at the explosive station of wrath.
Only a strong spark can alter that.


Scheme ABCBADEEEDF
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010 10110101 110110111 101111001 1101100010 10000101001 1110111 11010101 011100101 100101011 100111101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 381
Words 64
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 324
Words per stanza (avg) 64
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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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