Analysis of poem #8
David Plantinga 1972 (Sherbrooke)
The moon is grim and sly, and keeps
Pale secrets from her twin.
She hides the darkest of her blushes
Behind a slivered grin.
Her greater, fertile, sister earth,
Greater in girth, not age,
Knows a pallid, pock-marked cheek
But not a shaded rage.
A barren spinster, gray from birth,
Can scarcely bear to see
From callous sister such a show
Of broad fecundity.
| Scheme | XAXA BCXC BDXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01110101 110101 110101010 01011 01010101 100111 1010111 110101 01010111 110111 11010101 110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 358 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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