Analysis of The leaves are long prose that is hard to understand
Sungkyo Kim 1958 (Seoul)
It’s stepping on the road, rolling and sweeping around.
It looks like a Buddha who chose penance.
To break the relationship and lie down in a place where there is no way.
I can’t go back to road.
Looks like a Buddha
Staggering and falling out of the air
Allowed by the sacrifice of leaves
Entry and departure in the fall
One day between summer and winter
The wind that left home wrote
Reading a poem.
I conceded to a fallen leaf whose limbs were torn.
The day I got what I had lost.
The leaves showed lightness.
Nothing is never broken.
Whenever life is as bland as in the afternoon
I was walking in the rain.
The rain was falling inside me.
The leaves are a long prose that is hard to understand.
How much longer do I have to live
Can I nod my head to the hidden face?
When the Buddha went to the temple, I sat in the sea.
The leaf is also a life.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTURV |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011001001 1110101110 11001001100111111 111111 11010 1000101101 01101011 100010001 110110010 011111 10010 1010101011101 01111111 01110 1011010 010111110001 1110001 01110011 011011111101 111011111 1111110101 10101101011001 0111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 854 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 661 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 169 |
About this poem
If I don’t get enlightenment,you will be born again by anything in the world. I will be enlightened by looking at the leaves.
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Written on December 11, 2022
Submitted by soundviewoh on December 26, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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