Analysis of Io
There you go again
Crossing the green briny Mediterranean
Into the swift brown river Nile
To escape him
Your toga swelling about your waist
Twisting around you like thick white rope
Gadflies stick in your hair and bite
Your scalp, the insides of your ears, and
Your pink peeling forehead, and
You can scratch or drown
His wife sets a hundred eyes to follow you
He gives you the dull tongue of a cow
They do everything short of blaming you outright
They offer the name of a sea to you, but
Somehow the Ionian Sea is no comfort to me
As I'm pinned to the cool ground of your
Clean temple by a man who thinks himself
To be Jupiter or Zeus.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 1001100100 01011101 1011 110100111 100111111 1101101 110011110 1110100 11111 11101011101 111011101 11101110111 11001101111 1011111011 111101111 1101011101 1110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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