Ekphrastic
Rebecca Wolff 1967
there are some things up there
uptown
I want to see
I want to see I'm going to look at that and see
I want to go up and see
that show. That show
I went to see, I went to see.
There are some things up
there uptown
I want to
look at that and see. I'm going to see
what I look. What I look at, when I look, vessel,
I stood to see. I went to stand to look
to see. Venturing further I went outside myself to look
at that wall. It fed! There was a box inside that was not blank, I saw it.
It was really different from an aura, the thing had
colors, the thing was talking
to itself. And spoke
to me, not incidentally.
About this poem
Rebecca Wolff, "Ekphrastic" from One Morning—. Copyright © 2015 by Rebecca Wolff. Reprinted by permission of the author and Wave Books.
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Written on 2015
Submitted by Drone232 on July 09, 2022
Modified on April 18, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XA B B B X B X A X B X C CXX X X B |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 150 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1 |
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