Analysis of Against the gentle wind



Against the gentle wind

A brush of the wind against the face
a touch of a baby’s hand
warm rain of the eastern wind
intimate smells of fresh picked apples

Layers of liquid voices of silence
images rise from t he self
receptive to their element
to see the jewel in roughened stone
in a terrarium of dreams
that wonders the shores
of blue grey shades of liquid Chrystal
amidst the phosphorous flames

In the dying comfort of our lives
the part of me that is part of you
 reach out through

Intimacy of our language
translates through the public space
creating this grounding place

Between the morning stars
spontaneous inception
of the cosmic mind
form fragile roots that bind
in the crimson light
journeys across consciousness  
Of unquestioned lives


Scheme A BXAX XXXXXXXX CDD XBB XXAAXXC
Poetic Form
Metre 010101 011010101 011011 1110101 100111110 1011010110 10011111 01011100 11010011 00111 11001 111111010 0101001 0010101101 011111111 111 100011010 0110101 0101101 010101 0100010 10101 110111 00101 1001100 10101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 758
Words 136
Sentences 1
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 8, 3, 3, 7
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 102
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted by sunrasmoondog on June 07, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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