Analysis of Job and the German mystic...
Vincent St. Clare 1991 (Austin, Texas)
Four on the fold;
Turned within:
Coil and Pyramid
An eye for an eye makes
No world deaf
No love held
No life had
Not a moment here
Or a road in sight
Once upon a time, when
you, like him along the Rhine
Thought of your reflection,
Mutable in the current
You too grasped that chance for
No representation, no reality
Beyond that weariness
Yet
Your pain, you didn’t know
Became the king’s austerity
Cloak and Dagger, a dove came
In the night like a thief on the hour arrived
Unexpectedly, inexplicable as
A sickness or sage or words to tell why
Why?
Why?
Why me?
She too stole that power from,
Usurping the crown from above
Reason, elevated unto
—Passed down from—
Hand in hand in the Court of the heart
And here yet again
Yet again you’re here!
Scheme | xx x xxxx ax bxxx xcx xxc xxxd DDc exxexb a |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 101 10100 111111 111 111 111 10101 10101 101011 1110101 111010 1000010 111111 10010110 011100 1 11111 0101100 1010011 001101101001 010001001 0101111111 1 1 11 1111101 1001101 1010010 111 101001101 01101 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 777 |
Words | 164 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 4, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 3, 6, 1 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 13 |
About this poem
Job and Meister Eckhart
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Written on 2011
Submitted by VincentSt.Clare on February 08, 2022
Modified on March 16, 2023
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