Analysis of The Genesis of God’s Creation
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
And God wept!
His tears
Became
The salt of earth…
A sea of chemical solution!
And thus
He made the world
His own laboratory
And made Himself
The Alchemist.
So that
The world
Was made of Alchemy
That man might be
Confused.
And man…
Issued from God’s own
Idle thought—
So marvels at himself
As nature’s child.
He tries to dry the tears
of God…
Bu God
Weeps
Still.
| Scheme | XAXXX XBCDX XBCCX XXXDX AEEXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (56%) |
| Metre | 011 11 01 0111 011100010 01 1101 11100 0101 0100 11 01 111100 1111 01 01 10111 101 110101 1101 111101 11 11 1 1 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 381 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 25 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 11 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 56 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
This poem was first written in 1961 when the poet was a student at Howard University in Washington, D. C. It was eventually published by the New York Heritage Library (Educational Heritage Incorporated ) at 733 Yonkers Avenue, Yonkers, New York in 1963, where the poet once worked as a proofreader of manuscripts documenting black history, and featuring publications by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The publishing company has since folded. The poem, Creation, was inspired by the poet’s imagination of the numinous nature of the God image, and of man’s eternal preoccupation with the desire to comprehend the incomprehensible. more »
Written on September 14, 1961
Submitted by karlcfolkes on September 17, 2021
Modified by karlcfolkes on November 06, 2022
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