Analysis of The Noisy Whirlwind
It was one of those days, hot, still and far away.
Following the desert pavement, beckond on, futher
and farther from the where I've been to never been.
I stopped to rest in the shade of a palo verde tree.
Blue sky, white puff ball clouds, very little breeze.
I watched the redtail hawk survey his domain from
the large saguaro. A coyote on some quest passed by
like an arrow straight to somewhere. It was quiet,
soothing, a sigh, a deep breath or two, I dozed off.
But! I awoke, to! What sounded like a (well no words for it),
Ok! a big noise, moving toward me like a freight train
loosing its cargo of tin cans.
Whats happening? Am I awake? Bad dream?
Laughter, smile, I'm safe, its a whirlwind
That just picked up a bunch of old rusty tin
cans from an old prospectors dump. What a clamor.
I thought some day I will write a poem about
That noisy whirlwind, maybe next year.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNCBOP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111110101 100010101110 010101111101 11110011010101 11111110101 11011011011 01010001011111 11101111110 100101111111 110111101011111 11011100111011 1011111 0100110111 10111101 11110111101 11111011010 111111101001 11011011 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 858 |
Words | 167 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 671 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 167 |
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Submitted on March 15, 2015
Modified on March 05, 2023
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