Analysis of Latest poems of today
Jan G. Otterstrom F. 1944 (San Francisco)
ENCORE
Still not sure, what I will do for an encore
another curtain call, so many Acts, Scenes
an anxious audience, viewing my fairy tale
life, thinking that I understand Wagner, his
Der Ring des Nibelungen, finally coming to
the end of Gotterdammerung, the twilight
of the God’s, my evening at the veil.
My life, a theatrical work, that Giambattista
Vico would describe as non-Cartesian that
followed an order of things: probabilities of
experience surprised by circumstances, the
axioms formed of abstract reflective musings
a follower of Socrates and Cicero, true ideas
and discovery of human wisdom’s foolishness.
Life does not proceed in reason’s straight line
geometry fails as it tries to describe my years.
Maybe music by Bela Bartok or Zoltan Kodaly
will work for an encore, brilliance of mind.
(C) Jan G. Otterstrom F.
February 16, 2023
ENCORE II
Now near the end I feel like dancing
Bartok’s Romanian and Transylvanian
tunes give me another perspective, I will
play the 6th Aprózó/Máruntel with melodies
from villages of Belényes and Nyagra
Allegro in D and A major themes with coda
beginning in Lydian then with Lydian Mixes
ending in the Dorian. Feelings expressed that
I do not belong here, my parents taught me
to search for more than there is or was.
The imagination on another plane, with an
horizon or horizons that are on the edge
of my view, vague and with my cataracts
even harder to see clearly, but it is ancient
dance with roots in humanity, people that
I have never met, yet may well meet them
after death, the pulse of earth and season’s
changes, life struggles, hope in hereafter.
(c) Jan G. Otterstrom F.
February 16, 2023
Scheme | aaxbxcxb cdxexfxgxbxHI xxgxxaefdix xxxxdxxxHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1111111111 01010111011 110100101101 1101101101 1111100101 011100001 101110101 1100100111 1101110101 101101101001 01000111000 100110101010 01001100101010 001001101100 1110101011 0100111110111 1010110101101 111111011 11111 100 11 110111110 1010001 11101001011 101111111100 110011101 010100101110 0100111110 100010010011 11101111011 111111111 000101010111 010101011101 111101110 1010111011110 11100100101 1110111111 1010111010 1011010010 11111 100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,757 |
Words | 308 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 13, 11, 10 |
Lines Amount | 42 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 329 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Latest poems of today, I write almost daily, theme come from dreams and readings
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Written on February 16, 2023
Submitted by jgof70 on February 16, 2023
Modified on March 05, 2023
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