Analysis of Nightbiker



vigorously I cycle
through the night
turning pedals
around in darkness

as if I could reverse
passed time
before even missing it

speedier than by light
moving past
the sight of familiar things
like grass
and trees

the paths
I can dream
blindly bearing the burden


Scheme XAXX XXX AXXXX XXX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (53%)
Metre 1000110 101 1010 01010 111101 11 0110101 100111 101 0110101 11 01 01 111 1010010
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 256
Words 48
Sentences 1
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 5, 3
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 54
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted by ludy_b on August 01, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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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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