Analysis of The Eye of Omicron
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
A Phoenician War Cry:
“8-11-5-2-9!”
Eyeing humankind.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 001011 1 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 57 |
| Words | 9 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 7 |
About this poem
This three-line haiku poem, “The Eye of Omicron,” is written as an omen, delivering a potent message. It plays on the metaphor of omicron, the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet, being geometrically eye-shaped, as an all-seeing divine eye. Etymologically, the word omicron is derived from the Greco-Phoenician word, ayin, with companion etymological roots in Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic, Syriac, and Arabic; and which means both “eye” and “fountain,” the latter word serving symbolically as having the potential capabilities of over-flooding, as in a pandemic. The haiku poem employs the numbers 8.1.1 52 9, the original label used to identify the omicron variant. The potent omen of the poem says this: “Be ye ever vigilant. Protect the Planet Earth!” more »
Written on December 21, 2021
Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 21, 2021
Modified by karlcfolkes on May 24, 2022
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