Analysis of The Discovery
When we saw the city,
We believed again in time.
Line of the tall spires and the bend
Of a bright sky.
We believed again in space.
Light of the large looms
and the roof of the great eye.
We believed again in perfectibility
(if not perfection), in the fresh
(if not the new).
We named it progress. The past
was not warm, so we named it dead.
We named everything we could not touch
Passed. We believed
Again in what was large.
Might of the long road and
The risk of the big wish.
When we made the step back.
Look. There. Clear measure
Of the flock on the far tip,
Of all the missed trips.
When we saw the city—
Scheme | A x x b x x b a x x x x x x x x x x x x x A |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 1010101 11011001 1011 1010101 11011 0011011 1010101 11010001 1101 111101 11111111 11101111 1101 010111 110110 011011 111011 11110 1011011 11011 111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 22 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 21 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 31, 2023
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