Analysis of Dappled



Windy, autumned lanes
Punctuated by rainfilled pools
Dappled with fallen, sunkissed leaves
Dappled with light
Dappled with pictures into the azure skies
Dappled with hope
Unreachable
Unknowable but extant and true.

A stillness in the present
Unrippled
Unbroken
Taught
This tangential force, upholding the fallen
Reflecting the light
Keeping the stillness
for a momentary now

And as we run with frosted hedgerows
and a spent summer
As greedy winter makes true its promises
These dappled puddles
Soon to tighten and close
Ice skinned
Earth fast
Become bound in time
For a time

And as irresistible
another season
an Eastertide is promised,
and returns
and as our closest star rises in our view
and days lengthen
slate turns a titian hue
And those puddles one by one
Become
Undappled
and undone, anew.


Scheme AXXBXXCD XBEXEBXX AXXXXXXFF CEXXDEDEXBD
Poetic Form
Metre 1011 100111 111011 111 1110010101 111 0100 010011001 0100010 1 010 1 10101010010 01001 10010 101001 01111101 00110 11010111100 1110 111001 11 11 01101 101 010100 01010 11110 001 0110101100101 0110 110101 0110111 01 1 00101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 806
Words 142
Sentences 2
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 8, 8, 9, 11
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 165
Words per stanza (avg) 33

About this poem

I wrote this after a run through countryside English lanes and felt moved by the way our lives are dappled with things that open windows into bigger pictures and how this flows with time and the seasons

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Written on November 19, 2022

Submitted by Markgilborson on November 19, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mark Gilborson

I am a funeral celebrant living in the beautiful South West of England. This is the first poem I have ever offered to any site though I have written many for years as a way of personal learning and catharsis more…

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