Analysis of Slipped from Dust



from an attic’s darkness
I catch small patches of light
and retrieve
the sowing-seed I had left behind

heedlessly I had hidden it
out of sight and henceforth lost

on thick layers of sluggish dust
now steadily revives
a more colorful life
with rediscovered traces

once again it fascinates


Scheme XXXX XX XXXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 111010 1111011 001 010111101 111101 1110111 11101101 110001 011001 1001010 101110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 288
Words 49
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 2, 4, 1
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 59
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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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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