Analysis of The road of awe
alexis karpouzos 1967 (Αθήνα)
This morning i walked the road of awe.
I met frustrated gods and angels sad.
The people had abandoned them
and the magic had tumbled.
Now, the people are orphans,
wanderers across the night,
frightened meteors looking
for the source.
''Where to look for it?’’
‘’Don’t look away.
The sanctuary manifested
in the bird that wakes the sun
in the morning with its song,
in the raindrop that narrates
the sorrows of the sky,
in the air that whispers secrets in the trees,
in the arrival of sparrows''.
Sanctuary, the Great Welcome.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110111 111010101 01010101 0010110 1010110 1000101 1010010 101 11111 1101 0100100 0011101 0010111 001101 010101 00111010001 00010110 1000110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 410 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on December 20, 2019
Modified on March 14, 2023
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