Analysis of Dark Watervaulted
Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)
bayous hold the sagewise knowledge
of the slumber-soaked lands of New Acadie
lifeblood of mud and darkwater
lazily smiling bank vaults of the organic
bellyful of secrets and throwaway dreams.
unseen.
here lies the bicycle of Glenn, a Pont Breaux vanishling of 1958, the rich, red-brown fur of oxidization long since growing over the color of his 7 year old pride; hugger orange like Papa’s car. a murky monument to his mother’s sorrow that only the catfish know.
unmarked.
as the aromatic swampsyrup slides solemnly through the town of Evangeline
it washes the prints of soul and finger
from Jeanne’s bane, all nine millimeters
exploding soberly through her though he never was until her father found him.
uncocked.
under Duperier bridge a pinhead-treasure
covered by a silted blanket is the ring of
Mary; love withered her insides long before
bitter fury withered her outside. here she
drew back and loosed her future, falling
slowly with its pain-parachute
dream-bubble burst by a tiny splish in 1969
unnoticed.
The memories of joy are catalogued in
the spider-legged oaks of antiquity as they claw their way into heaven, but dark secrets require dark waters and the spirit of the snake.
uncleaned.
Scheme | XABXXX XA XBXXA BXBXXACA CXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110 101011111 11101 100101110010 11100101 01 110100110111101111111110100101111110101101010100111010110011 01 10010111001011010 1100111010 11111100 01010010111010101011 1 10110110 10101101011 10110001101 10101001111 110101010 1011110 1101101010 010 0100111100 010101101001111101101110101100010101 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,227 |
Words | 219 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 5, 8, 3 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Written on March 21, 2022
Submitted by BradyB999 on March 21, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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