Analysis of When…
Chief Speak-a-little-French 1980 (Calgary)
When I think of writing poetry
I think of Sylvia Plath
And W.B. Yeats
Of Ted Hughes
And Frida Kahlo
And Picasso…
When we were…
and then again…
and so forth…
Hummingbirds
Llamas, and more llamas
And ever more birds…
Creatures of every variety
When the sun rises on this
Vast river of life
| Scheme | AXX XXX XXX BXB AXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 111110100 1111001 011 111 0101 0010 110 0101 011 10 100110 01011 1011000100 1011011 11011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 283 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 45 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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