Analysis of Floral Guerilla



free fighters of the past
refined by human hands
shield their offspring weakly

but the old herbs will rise
from holes and cleaves
greening on poor soil
even in polluted air

with underground vitality
-persistent rumors say-
strong seeds wait for later
when the weak plants died

as the pampered vanish
-defeated by deficiencies-
old samples will resume
the battle from below


Scheme XXA XXXX AXXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110101 011101 11110 101111 1101 10111 1000101 1100100 010101 111110 10111 101010 01010100 110101 010101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 358
Words 62
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 77
Words per stanza (avg) 16
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Submitted by ludy_b on April 29, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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