Analysis of Dinosaur Standing on Quicksand
Gisela Vigil 1959 (Cuba)
What’s this I hear about
generational curses
to reverse and undo?
Glossy banners riding on
waves of change,
held by many who are
unaware they are
still standing at the start line
of a race that hasn’t begun.
What is this curse they speak of?
Is it a trait that parents pass down
to offspring,
much like trees producing fruits
that are the same?
Or is it an act or pattern
that keeps repeating
from generation to generation?
And why is it so horrible
that it is called a curse?
Could it be that what they call
a generational curse
is what I know as
heredity and traditions?
Something they want to extinguish.
Something I want to hold on to.
I’m starting to feel like
a dinosaur standing on quicksand.
Scheme | XXAXXBBXC XXDXXXDCXE XEXXXAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 010010 101001 1010101 111 111011 0111 1101011 1011101 1111111 110111011 11 1110101 1101 11111110 11010 10101010 01111100 111101 1111111 001001 11111 01000010 10111010 10111111 110111 0101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 726 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 10, 8 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
About this poem
Guess I’ve become my grandmother.
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Submitted by Giselavigil on January 04, 2024
Modified by Giselavigil on January 04, 2024
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