Analysis of watercolors
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
how did we ever
recognize each other with carved
eyes hollowed out like that?
you were so
beautiful the way your eyeliner
stains made watercolor bruises
on your cheeks
the way you would choose
not to use the
filter cussing jaclynn
susann throwing apple
cores at nobody in particular
the way you danced oh my the
way you danced that stork
dance so uniquely human
i was cain you were unable or was
it the other way around?
i wanna say i loved
you but love is never that
bloody is it?
to protect and
serve they forced themselves on
you to protect you from
seven years in pelican
bay so tears were
rare bruises internalized
harder to remove than
watercolor
eyeliner stains on the heart
birthmarks on the soul
now cain is at it again out
firebombing unables fighting
over magic beanstalks and
teenage prostitutes with watercolor
bruises
i have missed you
stork dancer
i am certain in the
faith that you could make
it all make sense somehow if
only you were here to smear
your watercolor bruises on my
cheeks
© John Kennan 4-24-21
Scheme | AXBXACDXEFXAEXF XXXBX GFXFAXFAXX XXGAC XAEXXXXD F |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110 1011011 110111 101 10001110 1110010 111 01111 1110 10101 11010 11100100 0111110 11111 1101010 1111001011 1010101 110111 1111101 1011 1010 111011 110111 1010100 1110 110010 101011 100 101101 1101 11111011 100110 101010 1101100 10 1111 110 111000 11111 111111 1010111 11001011 1 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 988 |
Words | 187 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 15, 5, 10, 5, 8, 1 |
Lines Amount | 44 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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