Analysis of Seeds
Their world is only sleep,
more sleep and dreams of birth, remembering
another earth, the teasing scent of spring
and dancing in the wind. But bedded deep
in freezing dark, their tiny kind lives twice,
immersed in myth. At need,
if granted just the smallest space, a seed
can slumber undisturbed straight through an Ice Age
in hazy visions of a quiet groping
upward toward a distant unseen world
of sun and spaciousness. Forever curled
around a dream, their hope
begins and ends in warmth and light. And if
sometimes a seed’s sleep is a fitful sleep,
its couch too cold and deep
to crouch in comfort, still, what better gift?
Scheme | ABBA XCCX BDDX XAAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 1101110100 0101010111 0100011101 0101110111 010111 1101010101 1100111111 01010101010 1001010011 11010101 010111 0101010101 0101110101 111101 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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