Analysis of Through the Lens of My Brother's Camera
Days and nights at Donegal,
the harbor swims past the lamppost
anchored at low tide.
A lighthouse blazes in a sea of gulls.
To the right, in bas-relief, baby lambs sleep
on a hillside beneath St. Brigid's cross.
And turning back to the foreground,
my eyes unveil
the four quarter mast of sails--
a loge quintet--
the tri-cornered winds of the isle--
and just to the left toward banks of sand,
a resting place,
the place wherein in daylight children
run along the shore.
As dusk settles, harbor lights dance.
Warm baked sandstone flank watertorn and river-weary blackened earth,
the land-a-lush green farther out
in the dry land.
Scheme | ABCDEFGAHIAJKLMNOPJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 0101101 10111 011000111 10101011011 10101111 0101101 1101 0110111 0101 01101101 0110101111 0101 01010110 10101 11101011 1111101010101 01011101 0011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 494 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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