Analysis of Back to King's Branch
I imagine you now, as you were then,
with your glistening chestnut hair, clasped
at the nape of your neck, prim and proper.
Your misty cerulean eyes sparkled as
you studied your dim reflection in the
branch’s pool of murky green waters.
You knew that this familiar wooded path
would lead to the sunlit mosaic threshold
of your new home, on this your wedding day.
Your new husband whooped and hollered as
he gulped a swig of mountain moonshine, your
wary, resolute stance catching him unawares.
Grabbing his flask, your movements were swift
as you poured its amber liquids into the depths
of the swirling, crystal stream, quenching its fire.
That day, you sauntered across King’s Branch,
through dense, archetypal forests on that familiar
wooded path, leading to your future and my past.
| Scheme | XXA BXXXXX BXXXXA XAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111101 11100111 1011111010 11011101 1101101000 11110110 1111010101 111010101 1111111101 111010101 110111011 1010110101 101111001 111110100101 101010110110 11110111 111101011010 101101110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 777 |
| Words | 133 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 6, 6, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem two decades ago to commemorate a family story that my great-grandmother, Nancy Jane King, told me in the mid-1970's just a few years before she died in 1976. She was a wonderful role model for me in so many ways. She endured hardship in her life in the Great Smoky Mountains, raising her family during the early 20th century, but through it all, her faith in God's grace remained strong.
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Written on 2001
Submitted by kaleidoscopickat on September 02, 2021
Modified by kaleidoscopickat on September 03, 2021
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