Analysis of Springer
beside the long cool roll of verdant mill creek
with ducks cruising among thirsty roots and mossy rocks like riverboats
a pepper- red poppy stands in the early summer sun.
a high-tempered diva, she stands among “love in a mist” and orange wall-flowers -
their barbed lime roundness counterpointing her thin tissue paper beauty.
her ebony black face as she soaks up the sun’s glory;
she knows me, you see,
or rather, is confidant i know her.
“take my picture” she coos then sticks her celebrity pose
nose in air “the wall-flowers need to exude all their sickly-sweet perfume,
rocks need their water flowing daintily over them to entice in summer’s heat.
with me – what you see is all you get.
all i need is me and you
…and you to remember me.”
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111011 111001101011110 01011010010101 01101011011001010110 111110111010 01001111110110 11111 110110110 11101111001001 101011011011110101 111101011011010101 111111111 1111101 0110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 752 |
Words | 135 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 1 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 291 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
About this poem
Published in Write The Town 2016. Mid-Valley Poets Society.2016. Written on site at Springer Botanical Garden, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.
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Written on June 04, 2016
Submitted by Ariel on September 19, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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