Analysis of Dawn of Poetry
Like the nascent smile on the lips of a baby bud,
The scissoring sun rays through the wintry mist
Like the first vapours of rain on a parched ground
Mind wandered with each flutter of butterfly’s wings
I imagined poetry a great matrix of mother-board words
Meaning meandering into them through chip’s romantic responses,
With the super charged sub-psychic images and experiences
Forging into an indecipherable program of sorts
To flash sparks of thrill for every idea understood.
I roamed on the corridors of libraries,
Quarantined in the cubicles therein figuring out
From the moth-eaten, brittle, tanned sheets
To the latest glazy silken journalistic extravaganza
To catch a glimpse of it, and put my name aside.
I integrated philosophies with persona,
Dissected histories and heritage,
Compared and contrasted images old and new
Presented several theses on the art and craft of poetry.
Still, the soul of poetry
eluded slipping through my hands and staying beyond my grasp.
Like the ageing tree in my fore yard
I stood in reverie for ages
Failing to read its SMS every season.
On one fine spring morning it dawned upon me
Poetry is not synthesising of words, expressions
Figures of speech or exotic ideas, or experimentation
Poetry is just the opposite,
Shredding yourself to pieces, to disintegrate
Unlearn, going through real raw life
Then it sure springs on you at the right moment
Like the sudden spurge crescent offshoots
At the first sign of Spring on an autumn-tonsured tree
Till then you should wait, recycling yourself with time.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010110110101 011110101 1011111011 1101110111 1010100011011011 10010001111010010 10101110100001000 100111111 11111110001001 1110100110 1000100011001 101101011 10101100100010 110111011101 110001001010 0101000100 010010100101 0101010101011100 1011100 010101110100111 10110111 110100110 10111110010 11111011011 10011111010 10111010010100010 100110100 10011101010 1101111 11111110110 10101101 101111111011 1111101000111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,514 |
Words | 254 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 11, 3, 3, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 180 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on January 09, 2017
Modified on March 14, 2023
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