Analysis of Broken roses

Jozef Milko 1960 (Bratislav)



The rose withered
the rest are just thorns
so mad, so cruel
and not a second passes and a person forgets
he walks upright and proud
he throws coins into the well
and the currents of thoughts pull him like a dog to the garden
where no one cries and no one begs
where they make love pros and cons
and the sweet smell intoxicates his body
you got something and gave something
something always breaks
whom you did not trust
he will not deceive you
and whom you trusted, he deceived you
so the rose withered
only the thorns remained
sad and so pointless...


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Poetic Form
Metre 0110 01111 11110 0101010001001 110101 1110101 001011111011010 11110111 1111101 0011010110 11100110 1011 11111 111011 011101011 10110 100101 10110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 555
Words 109
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 442
Words per stanza (avg) 105
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Written on April 30, 2023

Submitted by jozef_m on May 02, 2023

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