Analysis of Villanelle for a Different Season
Edgardo S. Tugade 1964 (Manila)
I wear a mask, and also wash my hands.
I do not engage and do not react.
I still look for someone who understands.
I live in a time of infested lands
Because of government’s infernal pact.
I wear a mask and also wash my hands.
I denounce the elected robber bands
But civil service brings in what I lack.
I still look for someone who understands.
The house of life I built on shifting sands
And reaped the tempest and the deluge black.
I wear a mask and also wash my hands.
I try to pray and follow God’s commands
But circumstances dictate how I act.
I still look for someone who understands.
O where do fairies wave their magic wands
And mend the broken crowns of Jill and Jack?
I wear a mask and also wash my hands.
I still look for someone who understands.
*20 November 2020
Scheme | AbA abA acA acA abA xcAAx |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 1101010111 1110101101 11111101 1100110101 0111000101 1101010111 1010010101 1101010111 11111101 0111111101 0101000101 1101010111 1111010101 110001111 11111101 1111011101 0101011101 1101010111 11111101 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 785 |
Words | 169 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
About this poem
The conflict between the ideals and necessities of a 56-year-old Filipino Catholic gay man working for a government agency.
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