Analysis of In Broken Images
He is quick, thinking in clear images;
I am slow, thinking in broken images.
He becomes dull, trusting to his clear images;
I become sharp, mistrusting my broken images.
Trusting his images, he assumes their relevance;
Mistrusting my images, I question their relevance.
Assuming their relevance, he assumes the fact;
Questioning their relevance, I question the fact.
When the fact fails him, he questions his senses;
When the fact fails me, I approve my senses.
He continues quick and dull in his clear images;
I continue slow and sharp in my broken images.
He in a new confusion of his understanding;
I in a new understanding of my confusion.
Scheme | AA AA BB CC AA AA XX |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 1111001100 11110010100 101110111100 1011010110100 1011001011100 01011001101100 010110010101 100110011001 10111110110 10111101110 1010101011100 10101010110100 100101011010 100101011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 644 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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