Analysis of The Dry Land
A soft comfort on a cold bus
and Arizona passes me by.
The fake desert of cow-grass and brown
misleads from the sky.
Abandoned hills give home
to the sunset of sweet orange
and an indescribable glow
to which I am now so much closer.
The canyon in its grandeur
truly is a mystic;
an overwhelming beast
not tangible, touchable,
but there just the same.
And Sedona with her red Earth,
pushed upward toward the sky
shows in all her glory
how Mother Nature is kind.
Scheme | ABCBDEFGHIJKLMBNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101011 00101011 011011101 01101 010111 1011110 0101001 111111110 0100101 101010 10101 1100100 11101 00101011 1100101 101010 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 444 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 365 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 86 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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