Jazz Poem 1
Matthew Sean Markonis 1984 (Santa Barbara)
Other people gather ‘round
The truth has come at last!
But I don’t see it,
I only see its shell.
I see it’s gone around and turned its back.
Why for, wherefore?
Hell, Hell.
I see its shell.
I see a baby’s stiff white fingers
molding and moistening a piggy bank, as well.
The egg that fell,
the guardian that swept him up.
Hell, Hell.
I only see its shell.
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Written on December 10, 2002
Submitted by msmarkonis on January 30, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | x x xA x xa a xa ax A |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 372 |
Words | 90 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1 |
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