Analysis of Somewhere



Behind each and every
practical and focussed thought,
lives a wide world
of dreams.

With every breath, every
micropause in all that I do,
I wander off in it,
because there it is,
I find you.


Scheme AXXX ABXXB
Poetic Form
Metre 0110100 1000101 1011 11 11001100 101111 110101 01111 111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 194
Words 43
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 5
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted by ludy_b on April 25, 2024

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Ludy Bührs

The topics she writes about are very diverse, so are the poetry styles she applies. As a Dutch translator and poet, having lived in Cambodia's capital city Phnom Penh for 2.5 years, in 2008 she published "Op de ruïnes van een rijk" (On the Ruins of an Empire) ISBN 978-90-8834-483-1 with 60 poems based on her experiences there. In 2007 she received a Certificate of Accomplishment as one of The Best Poems and Poets of 2007 issued by poetry.com and the International Library of Poetry for her poem Choked Truth, her own translation of "Verstikte waarheid", one of the poems in the book. Born in 1956, she still works as an independent translator, translating from English into Dutch. more…

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