Analysis of Counting snowflakes will not help me sleep
Counting snowflakes will not help me sleep
-for the fallen, and those yet to fall in the Israel-Hamas conflict
Bring me slow horses
and hot cocoa. Give me
the God of twenty-seven degrees.
God of snow. God of rock
salt shining on the road home.
Take this detonating dream –
a beautiful woman watches
David bathing on a roof.
She will have him.
She’ll take his house,
his dark figs harvested by hand.
She says, your babies
are bad at war.
She never blinks.
He sings in his mother’s
tongue. He tries to tell me
something as he drowns.
When I wake, the old
language is lost. I wait
at the window – the fallen
belong to us all. I couldn’t
count them if I tried.
Look – the snow
is really coming down.
Scheme | XA BCDXX XBX XXX DXX XCX XXXAX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 10100111100100110 11110 011011 011101001 111111 1101011 111001 01001010 1010101 1111 1111 11110011 11110 1111 1101 110110 111111 10111 11101 101111 1010010 0111111 11111 101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 724 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 5, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem because I can't look away from the staggering violence on the world stage. Even people we will never meet belong to us, and we to them, in a shared human experience.
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