Analysis of The Love of My Life
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
The love of my life:
The treasure of poetry
A dream come true
Bearing sacred messages
From the depths of the psyche
The love of my life:
The poets of yesteryear
Now brought back to life
Like Shakespeare, Milton, and Scott
Like Shelley, Byron, and Keats
The love of my life:
Browning, Tennyson, and Gray
Commingling with me
Renown names of literature
Distinguished by their letters
The love of my life:
The acquaintance of writers
Their quill still not dry
Bleeding the passage of time
With indelible imprint
The love of my life:
Poets, painters, musicians
Artists of all kinds
Linking what’s past with what’s new
To brighten the mind’s landscape
The love of my life:
Those with imagination
All are inventors
Showing what is possible
Creators of what can be
The love of my life:
As transformers of the old
Artists are rebels
Offering what is novel
To take us somewhere higher
The love of my life:
All artists are like children
They thrive on changes
Innovators of the new
Of that which is possible
The love of my life:
A poet ever dreaming
To awaken us
To that which we can become
Awakened souls with new selves
The love of my life:
A human soul awakened
Like lotus flowers
Symbols of resurrection
Enlightened — now rejoicing.
| Scheme | Abcdb Axaxx Axbef Afxxx Axxcx Agfhb Axxhe Agdch Aixxx Axfgi |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (26%) |
| Metre | 01111 0101100 0111 1010100 1011010 01111 010110 11111 111001 1101001 01111 1010001 010011 01111000 0101110 01111 0010110 11111 1001011 1010001 01111 1010010 10111 1001101 110011 01111 110010 11010 1011100 0101111 01111 1010101 10110 1001110 111110 01111 1101110 11110 100101 1111100 01111 0101010 10101 1111101 0101111 01111 0101010 11010 101010 0101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 1,253 |
| Words | 247 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 10 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 50 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
Like the lotus flower, growing out of muddy waters, yet rising above its murky environment, and blossoming majestically to open each of its petals, one at a time, in the passage of divine passing, so blooms and flourishes the human soul, each one in its own time, awakened to flourish and sparkle by the fertile imagination of a poet, a writer, a painter, a singer, and all other artists and philosophers, who dwell among us only to elevate us to higher spheres of what is possible for each and all of us. more »
Written on June 25, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on June 25, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on June 25, 2022
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