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
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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