Analysis of Soap/Box: a geometry of passage; or Fresh outa Kansas
JC Berthelsen 1948 (Atlanta)
What’s fear, we feel
to touch the curving edge
that never turns and ever
turns and never ends?
For orbs emerge to merge
and tentatively hope to
end and start a glassy envelope.
Sublime and lim
we meet, two bubbles
you and eye,
attendant on those large
and small, reflect
without
the necessary charge.
Upon this concave face
revolves subtangent doubt
and vacuum vexed within.
So circumspect and
scripted prior
is this parody of
soundless
music ground from out the
spherical celestial choir.
Slight echoed mention:
We sustain through
courtesy of such
a tender rending tension
released and ceased
by mostly loving
But motion and emotion
spin
from ultimate,
impossible,
a blastosphere propulsion
blessed by navigating
whim and wish
ing that our pious
volume could be
measured
out in ozs.
(such radi
ance descends
in fantasy and pipe dreams
measured fair. yclept
the corners of the
globe, the pointing
pointed tesser
acting angles
of the sphere
within
What wonder then that we
should see
this fear,
and hope to join
in voiceless
shimmering expansion—
thinking big is bigger
in a universe
of
lines—which
stands a
part from gleams that
curve in tachyonic glee.
All eye wish for me
and thee
is
to be a surface
Burst with me
and let the tiny
not so hollow
mystic tiny mirth
descend so slowly
Hope with me that
fragments might collide
before
they kiss the
ever
flatter curving
surface
of
the
earth.
Scheme | xxabxc x xdxexf e xf g xahbi a jcxjxk jgxxjkxlmx b mbxcikadng mmnxljaxHxi o m mmx l mmxpmoxxiaklH ip |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 110101 1101010 10101 110111 0100011 10101010 0101 11110 101 010111 0101 01 01001 011011 0111 010101 1100 1010 111001 1 101110 10001010 11010 1011 10011 0101010 0101 11010 1100010 1 1100 0100 01010 11100 101 111010 1011 10 101 110 101 0100011 1011 01010 1010 101 1010 101 01 110111 11 11 0111 010 100010 101110 0010 1 11 10 1111 1011 11111 01 1 11010 111 01010 1110 10101 01110 1111 10101 01 110 10 1010 10 1 0 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 1,446 |
Words | 277 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 19 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 1, 6, 1, 2, 1, 5, 1, 6, 10, 1, 10, 11, 1, 1, 3, 1, 13, 2 |
Lines Amount | 82 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 59 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
a quantum love story
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Written on May 15, 1948
Submitted by chrisb.13414 on November 29, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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