On Beauty Untamed
“Poetry must have something in it that is
barbaric, vast and wild.” –Denis Diderot
The Falcon
In lovely light and lofty pose,
It perched an autumn limb.
Rebalancing, a wing arose
Revealing something grim ...
Though Nature's beauty knows not sin,
Still ruthless reign her laws,—
A mangled mouse was clutched within
The raptor's razored claws.
About this poem
One thing about Nature that has always bewildered me, or that I at least found incomprehensible, is how everywhere beauty and evil commingle in a deadly dance … hence the poem.
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Submitted by Vixility on December 17, 2023
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Quick analysis:
| Scheme | XX ABAB CDCD |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 387 |
| Words | 69 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4 |
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