Analysis of Nanjizal
West of here the ground lay far more rutted as if jarred by itself and its own strength; tugged at by time and storm from the soft core of central earth, covered in autumn by yellow gorse and purplish bracken; healing. Rooted in rain moistened peat, toughened by unseen winds, fissures a haven for finch and field martin, breeding.
Land heaves itself through the dankness of winter again, uprising as a cool spring fills; reaching the womb of sea at the breach of old Zawn Pyg, where cliffs arch inwardly like praying hands. Shimmering beneath September's pensive light ....
breath floats upwards
reciting quiet psalm
hymnal birds on the wing
Morning is still, without breeze; skylarks resting easy. Moss nestles in stone crevice, flowers huddle in patches below fields, where a farmer's blade gathers hay each autumn. Randomly tailed by a long succession of wild and wily gulls, lingering close to paths of summer's guests; past echoes gone ....
pastures whisper
reeds rustle in wet banks
overhead sun lowers
I cast sun shielded eyes toward time smoothed palms of rock, carpets of emerald lichen, and a slithering of tide borne weed; resting around a cove less known to man but well by a colony of barnacles, who cling to each torr as if life and its passage depends on it.
We shall tramp the paths above on bright spring days; feast our gaze further west on an endless line of sea and dipping cloud, fettered by nothing more than common thought ....
seasons roll on
rhythm of earth enduring
learning curves of man
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Metre | 1110111110111101011111110110111101100101101010101010011011010111001011011010 110110111001010101111001111011111111100110110001010101 1110 010101 101101 1011011110101100110101001001110101101110100110101011010110011111011101 1010 110011 101110 111101011111110110100010011111001011111111010011001111111101100111 111010111111101101111011101011011011101 1011 1011010 10111 |
Characters | 1,795 |
Words | 277 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 87 |
Words per line (avg) | 19 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 173 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
About this poem
The title of this haibun is a place here in my homeland which I love and appreciate for its natural beauty and also its remoteness.
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