Analysis of Dust to Dust
My life scattered amongst fiber pages of possessive paper
I no longer recognize myself.
A particle at sea
A beam of sunlight in the forest
A trunk of one tree
A slice of lumber. now a shaving of wood molded to this paper.
A page, a chapter, minutes of a life, I search for the beginning.
Ambition becomes submission but angels never surrender.
The mistral winds howl creating cause and effect.
An old woman drops her book, it flew with the wind, pages flung here and there. The most worn pages clung to me.
I am the pages, I am the book, I am the woman, I am the forest.
Scheme | ABCDCAEAFCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110011010101010 1110101 010011 01110010 01111 01110101011101110 01010101011110010 0100101011010010 010110101001 11101011110110110101110111 1101011011101011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 560 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 444 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
About this poem
It hints of reincarnation
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