Analysis of A Kinder Scent Of Coming Spring
Je Woo Han 2000 (Seoul)
When snails shed their shyness
their homeless cousins timid still
Spiders invite themselves in for tea
their gifted lattice weave drapes the old TV
When the fog’s faces don’t illicit fear
Cheeks pressed up against the clear pane
harmless degenerates placing bets on droplets
skiing down the open window slope
When countryside thunder forgets itself
clapping as spectator with no command
Pulling clouds over its head to sleep
drifting away so all may nap
When the monsoon storm refuses to rage
grants permission for its yawns to wander free
The playful young gales swing through the racks
knowing they can’t afford any hanging dresses
Nothing happens in the in-between
Relax those fangs but purse your lips
quietly breathe and willfully surrender
to a kinder scent of coming spring
Scheme | XXAA XXXX XXXX XAXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111110 11010101 100101011 11010110111 1011010101 11101011 100100101110 101010101 110100101 1011001101 101101111 10011111 1001101011 10101111101 010111101 101101101010 101000001 01111111 10010100010 101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 799 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
I welcome Winter, for it's when I'm most in my element and comfortable- to the point where Spring often feels foreign to me.
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