Analysis of Marching
Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)
the winds rush by in March
it’s the busy season of breezes
a long list of doing-things; thankless
here arrives the lumbering, horse-drawn
cartwind carrying pioneers of precipitation
from the western spacious skies
delivering the deluge of Mississippi swelling
our American Nile; unfull of crocodiles
Turn your face to the South
there’s the lady of gulfbirthed warmth
gently she strokes the teeming blue
her touch is like your mother’s hands
making pain fade instantly; hear that?
her sigh is silken unhurried honey
But have a care for her summer raging
a temper-tempested sunlit sociopathy
From the north there’s an icy import
like weather-whiskey, this one is bearded
with the hoarfrost of the millenia
our dear March beats back his short forays
go take your mountained rest, old man
enjoy your arctic dotage for a season
your labours begin in earnest again soon
For you to force the lady of the land to sleep
The news-bringer, the wild-eyed eastern galewoman, lashing all within her reach
with the salted tears of undersea shipyards
her collection of silent bones sing dirges
the music of the melancholy spirit
unheard but not unnoticed in the sand
inhabited by her scaled and shelled subjects
her gaze is westward bright, coldblooded
Scheme | XAXBCXDX EXXXFXDE XXBXXCXX XXAXXXF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101 101010110 011110110 101010011 11000110010 1010101 0100010101010 10010011110 111101 1010111 10110101 01111101 101110011 0111001010 1101101010 010111 101111001 1101011110 101101 1011111110 1111111 0111011010 1101010011 111101010111 0110111011010101 101011011 0010110111 0101010010 0111010001 01001010110 0111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,270 |
Words | 230 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 7 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 253 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Written on April 03, 2022
Submitted by BradyB999 on April 03, 2022
Modified on April 11, 2023
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