Analysis of Verbal Cantrips
Warbard 1967 (Los Angeles)
First, Just Words
Quest of the heart,
Comes without choice,
After first vision,
Before the first voice,
A true word of caution,
Great or small that you be,
Oak worships a willow,
Tree understands tree.
And then it seems, as if a dream,
A maiden on her steed appeared,
But as dreams are, far as a star,
Beyond my reach, Rhiannon fades.
To tell the youth from one who’s grown,
The answer is clear to see,
For the elder wish to be a child,
And the child, an adult thinks he be.
Whatever be your lot in life,
Whatever be your da’n,
Strive to be the brilliant flame,
That burns when the ember’s gone.
If money be the root,
Of evil to us all,
Then go to church and purge your sins,
At your local shopping mall.
Scheme | X XABABCXC XXXX XCXC XXXX XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (24%) |
Metre | 111 1101 1011 10110 01011 011110 111111 11001 1011 01111101 01010101 11111101 011111 11011111 0101111 101011101 001101111 1011101 10111 1110101 1110101 110101 110111 11110111 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 729 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 8, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
These are selected shorts that were brought together to reflect upon.
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Written on 1985
Submitted by Warbard on September 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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