Analysis of Dappled
Mark Gilborson 1966 (Bristol)
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 |
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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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