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
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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