Analysis of Canna lilies in fall
CANNA LILIES IN FALL
Canna lilies, trimmed to stalks,
stand like the royal guard,
arrayed in terra cotta urns,
silent, each one at attention.
In October’s angled light,
we upend the pots, spilling
tubers, roots, tangled in soil,
Prepared now to hibernate.
Then we see the lonely stalks
have formed and twisted, each to each,
beneath the earth, hidden from us,
a single secret organism
As the cruel spade rives the bulbs
from their fall entanglements
to dry throughout the winter,
I think us two parting,
Separate in time and space,
but with roots entwined beneath,
hidden deep within a secret
that no person shall rive apart.
Scheme | X AXAX XBXX AXXX XXXB XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001 110111 110101 01010101 10111010 01101 110110 111001 011110 1110101 11010111 01011011 01010100 10101101 1110100 1101010 111110 100101 1110101 10101010 11101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
About this poem
Thoughts about gardening, life and what lies beneath.
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