Analysis of Slacks

Roberto Suarez Torres 1983 (New York)



They bloom like soft drops,
fat green leaves easy to take,
the part of a chop
of a meadows crop,
by the crystal lonely lake.

The silent tempest
in a teacup, it will graze
a lazy necklace,
as are the lettuce
and large tomatoes ablaze.

They hunger like flames,
and go through the mill sleeping,
trying, they exclaim,
yet nothing to claim
in autumn; vessels bleeding.


Scheme XABBA XCDDC XEFFE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (33%)
Metre 11111 1111011 01101 1011 1010101 01010 001111 01010 11010 0101001 11011 0110110 10101 11011 0101010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 351
Words 66
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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