Analysis of Another Billy Collins’ piece (looking west)
Doug Blair 1951 (London)
Just beyond the flower garden at the end of the lawn
the curvature of the earth begins,
sloping down from there
over the length of the country
and the smooth surface of the Pacific
before it continues across the convex rice fields of Asia
and, rising, inclines over Europe
and the bulging, boat-dotted waters of the Atlantic,
finally reaching the other side of the house
where it comes up behind a yellow grove of forsythia
near a dilapidated picnic table,
then passes unerringly under the spot
where I am standing, hands in my pockets,
feet planted firmly on the ground.
From “Picnic, Lighting” by Billy Collins (University of Pittsburgh Press: 104 pp., $12.95 paper)
Scheme | X X X X A B X A X B X X X X X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010101101 010010101 10111 10011010 0011010010 0110100100111110 010011010 00101101010010 100100101101 111101010110100 100100110 11011001 1111010110 11010101 11101101001001101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 687 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 36 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Loving the opportunity to get the brilliance of poems by Billy Collins in front of friends in this Forum. Not my poem but Billy’s.
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Written on February 19, 2023
Submitted by dougb.21370 on February 19, 2023
Modified by dougb.21370 on February 19, 2023
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