Altar
Roberto Suárez Torres 1983 (New York)
...better to see it wilt in autumn tints...
like a crown and with it their heavy thorns,
stemming from a blind stream of pure ascent:
burning in flames crackles all of it torn,
pitch black towers of smoke on a mount steep,
seen in a sky tender light has been born;
and like a hot wave, shape of a coil deep,
as locks found on a man turned a goat,
or at times ringlets that dangle sheep
near ponds where the needed grapevines pruned float,
with all modes of spices drifting they seep:
grown leaf of grapes girded round like a moat.
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Written on July 30, 2022
Submitted by robertrad2021 on July 30, 2022
Modified by robertrad2021 on July 31, 2022
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXX ABA BCB CBC |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 538 |
Words | 119 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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