Analysis of My tongue



At the end of
my tongue
there are sounds

and in those sounds
air

and in that sky
birds,
come again

summers long forgotten,
far from home,
free
in otherworld −

I find
in ways
I remained
overthere,
missed

much of this life,
shortened myself.

At the point of no return now,
between regrets
and no regrets −

never too old
to become


Scheme XXA AB XXX XXXC CXCBC XX XDD CX
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 11 111 0011 1 0011 1 101 101010 111 1 01 11 01 101 1 1 1111 101 10111011 0101 0101 1011 101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 314
Words 64
Sentences 2
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 3, 2, 3, 4, 5, 2, 3, 2
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 11
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 32
Words per stanza (avg) 8

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Finding my way home to my own life (translation of a poem originally written in Dutch - by myself)

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Written on April 06, 2020

Submitted by JohnLoopstra on September 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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