Analysis of Mythic-Moving
Scott Michael Potter 1966 (Grand Rapids, MI)
Three spirits moved toward the unconscious—
salty oceanic reserves
Movement formed waves of gradual projection
a range deserving some thought
One moves in shadows
of prosecutorial vengeance so serves
Leave me something of what felt itself
prior to that that was what
In chases forming traces of your visage
worlds jumped out of their triumphal
charring of the Ugaritic transferal
of colors ill-defined that will chase the sage
Images and words entwined seeking find
folded time and mended space conferring grace
Later, some savor one over other
Tomes chorus illusory cacophony
Three in unity multiply to one which some
do not see is four within and without
for they move in shadow sails billowing
to obscure aesthesis and inert poesis
Scheme | ABXXXBXX XCCX XXXXXXXA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (25%) |
Metre | 110101010 1001001 10111100010 0101011 1101 1001001011 111011101 1011111 01010101110 11111010 101011 11010111101 1000101101 10101010101 1011011010 11001000100 10100101111 1111101001 111011100 10110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 738 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 204 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
About this poem
Three become One are Four, just as Two become One are Three, just as One becomes One are Two, just as Four become One are Five, just as Five become One are Six, ad infinitum... That is only when the first unify and thereby transmogrify.
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Written on February 18, 2022
Submitted by ScottMPotter on May 07, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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