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 |
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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 |
About this poem
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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