Analysis of Touching Down
So much for
the lone cannon
up to its ears
in winter wheat
in the Kansas
of someone's dying
backyard. So much
for the choke
cherries sprouting
out its mouth.
Here, the dead
stay dead,
What's left is
still covered
in marrow reds.
Bags for the bags
of bodies. Shovels
more familiar
with grief
than gardens.
So much for
the anthem
loosening
in the throats
of porch cats,
yellow eyes
floating like
fireflies, sliced
moons over fields
siphoning bones
from the earth
as if there were
a milk in this world
sweet enough to last.
Scheme | Ax xx xb xx bx cc xx xx xd xx Ax bx xx xx xx xd xx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111 0110 1111 0101 0010 1110 111 101 1010 111 101 11 111 110 0101 1101 11010 1010 11 110 111 010 100 001 111 101 101 101 1101 1001 101 1110 01011 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 17 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 24 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on October 09, 2018
Modified on March 14, 2023
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