Analysis of The Heated Rage of a Frigidaire

Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)



The chamber of ICE,
so unpleasantly outed,
was utterly shocked
by heaven’s bolt of lightning,
that made her EYES turn water.


Scheme ABCDE
Poetic Form Tanka 
Metre 01011 1010010 11001 1101110 1101110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 126
Words 24
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 99
Words per stanza (avg) 21

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This Waka-Tanka poem depicts the alchemy of transformation .

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Written on January 06, 2023

Submitted by karlcfolkes on January 06, 2023

Modified by karlcfolkes on January 06, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s “Dear Mili” Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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