Analysis of Without Words



A fool posted all of his words
without thought on the Internet
While outside they would’ve hurt
there they were grasped like snacks

Still the fool felt urged to complain
he could not say he had no reign.
By then they’d taken from the geek
all of his words, and so his speak.

Now he drums without adjourn;
words come back, return, return ...


Scheme XXXX AABB CC
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 01101111 0111010 111111 110111 10111101 11111111 11110101 11110111 1110101 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 335
Words 63
Sentences 3
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 21
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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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