Analysis of Deadnettle Date

Ludy Bührs

squarely you stand in the field
amidst your tangy cronies
as if you’re really matching those
in their stinging strife

you threatening me with burning pain
makes me laugh, it’s just in vain

I do see sweet velvet lips
the red that flushes at your veins
and your smell keeps pleasing me

you probably don’t want to hear
but it’s a fact, you know
I would like to test your taste

maybe tomorrow I’ll take you
back to my home with me
then you can pleasantly lie
in my herbaceous tea

Scheme XXXX AA XXB XXX XBXB
Poetic Form
Metre 1011001 011110 11110101 01101 110011101 1111101 1111101 01110111 0111101 11001111 110111 1111111 1001111 111111 1111001 010101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 470
Words 91
Sentences 1
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 3, 3, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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