Analysis of Soon the Shrub Will Out
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
Soon the shrub will out …
Spring again —
The cycle of life repeating.
Image superimposed on image:
A face in a crowd reminding…
Of your face…
Of a lover’s face…
Of children’s merry faces…
Gleaming — shining brightly.
A fleeting shadow flirting—
Dancing with us in the sunlight.
Flirting with such imagination:
Yours, mine, everybody’s…
Just anybody’s (It matters not).
The verdant shrub inclining.
Not hiding, but reminding…
Reminding us it’s Springtime.
Reminding with a nascent thought.
Emerging — and now nourished.
By a poet’s loneliness…
We poets dwell in loneliness…
Embraced by nature’s arms.
We poets are alone —
The world cannot contain our kind.
We see, we touch, we taste, we smell…
And we listen to and hear…
The music of the spheres.
We even live and die…
Only to rise again in dreams…
In fertile dreams…
Of our imagination.
We dream what other beings perceive…
As whispers of some foreign realm.
We are by virtue — not by choice…
Alone. Alone in wonderment…
Where shrubs will always bloom.
So soon the shrub will out…
Life passing on …
Another day, another year …
Season after season.
Sun ripening the corn —
Summer urging Autumn …
Winter’s blight diminished …
By the call again of Spring.
The Wheel of Time a cycle.
Boys and girls through seasons.
Becoming men and women …
And the poet in a timeless world…
Fashioning with grandiloquence…
His pen, his feathered quill …
To etch the course of human destiny.
Soon the shrub will out …
Imagine it, image it …
The thought, the faces of humanity …
Dancing and prancing …
Unceasingly through seasons …
To etch the course …
Of human destiny —
Again — the shrub, the thought …
A metaphor of fleeting sacred life.
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Poetic Form | Etheree (23%) |
Metre | 10111 101 01011010 10001110 01001010 111 10101 1101010 101010 010110 1011001 10110010 111 111101 01011 1101010 010111 01010101 0100110 1010100 11010100 011101 110101 011001101 11111111 0110101 010101 110101 10110101 0101 1100010 111101001 11011101 11110111 01010100 11111 110111 1101 01010101 101010 110001 101010 101010 1010111 0111010 101110 0101010 001000101 10011 111101 1101110100 10111 0101101 0101010100 10010 1110 1101 110100 010101 0100110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,782 |
Words | 328 |
Sentences | 21 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 60 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
Anticipating the changing of seasons, this poem was composed on March 16, 1981, towards the end of Winter, and the expectation of Spring that would arrive that year at 12:02 EST on March 20. The warmer weather of Spring, accompanied by increased hours of daylight, makes the Spring season excellent for the blooming, growth, and flourishing of things in nature. There seems to be a bounce in the air, as nature perks up to welcome all in many creative ways. It is a time to turn a leaf over and literally smell the roses. Many households use this time to engage in “Spring cleaning.” It is a time for Hope, and even a time for daydreaming, especially for artists and poets to whet our appetite with their imagination of wonderment. This poem, “Soon the Shrub Will Out,” was written in such a joyful spirit of celebration. more »
Written on March 16, 1981
Submitted by karlcfolkes on March 06, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on November 05, 2022
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