Analysis of The Bustards Egg
Behind me.
Frozen
Military issued hands down my military issued trousers
This is no military issue for me!
Chew the fat (grit) of horror, incomprehensible
War, a sandwich, pickles, squashed between.
Covered in sweat, grime, tears
my flesh is sore
Bullets soar o're
A boar
or is it?
Screaming
Blood
The bustards egg
Foie gras, indigestible
She spits
Like a mortar, her yolk exposed
and drips down my hairy back.
Authority exudes
Pouring from every crack and crevasse, and crack
Like my mother
Scolding me
I feel alive.
Breasts like bulbs
A flower?
Milk?
Sugar?
Something sweeter.
A cake! A cake!
Red velvet
A reluctant bite
A fortnight passes
One more taste
"Mother?"
| Scheme | AXXA BX XCXCX XXXB XXD XDEAX XEXEE XXX XXE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011 10 100101111001010 1111001011 101111000100 101010101 100111 1111 10111 01 111 10 1 011 111 11 10100101 0111101 010001 10110010101 1110 101 1101 111 010 1 10 1010 0101 110 00101 0110 111 10 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 686 |
| Words | 140 |
| Sentences | 15 |
| Stanzas | 9 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 5, 4, 3, 5, 5, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 34 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
This poem, uncovered in the burned down estate of Longerfellow has now been discovered and been added to the Westerlo Museum's great poetry collection.
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Written on June 14, 1941
Submitted by LongerfellowBiggestFan on August 30, 2022
Modified on April 19, 2023
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