Analysis of Letting Go



Lend me your hand, simply mess-up my hair.
I’m so tired of the ongoing brain,
this senseless mill, grinding on a past pair.
Give me a push, force me to just restrain,
so I will thus pay attention once again
at what binds me, apart from deep disgrace.
Reject for real, so I can leave this place
where I don’t live, blind and deaf in a low,
fully blocked from pleasure and space.
Unlock my smile, break it and let me go.


Scheme ABABCDDEDE
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1111101111 111010101 1101101011 1101111101 11111010101 1111011101 0111111111 1111101001 10111001 0111110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 413
Words 82
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 319
Words per stanza (avg) 82
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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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