Analysis of wishing in heavy rich
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
voice heavy rich
honey
crystallized wishes
to drip
again
corpse lookin for
sidewalk
to be scraped off of
she compels
razor rain
scarred
honey veins
bled sweet
icicles
rich in perfect
formation
funeral train snakes
its way devours
track creeps only
sign of life a gathering
of worms
& morning municipal
maintenance hose
sweet sticky off
sidewalks
i hear you
now in bees trees
cracks in sanitation
sidewalks
voice heavy rich honey
sweetens
breakfast
as traffic drones
distant
you saw honey
in black in white but
i taste
in color
ads perfect in
pitch rabbit ears
feed pictures with
static buzz
flowers hum in
spring welcome bees
pollenate make
honey i visit
watch their busy
turn to buzz wires
short-circuit
and i wish i
could taste your
voice heavy rich
honey
drip again
© John Kennan 5-13-21
Scheme | ABxxcdxxx xxxxxxe xfbxx xxxG xheGbxxxx bixx jxxx jhxibfixdABc e |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tetractys (65%) |
Metre | 1101 10 1010 11 01 111 1 11111 101 101 1 101 11 100 1001 010 10011 11010 1110 1110100 11 100100 1001 1101 1 111 1011 10010 1 110110 10 10 1101 10 1110 01011 11 010 1010 1101 1101 101 1010 1101 11 10110 1110 11110 110 0111 111 1101 10 101 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 760 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 7, 5, 4, 9, 4, 4, 12, 1 |
Lines Amount | 55 |
Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
Words per line (avg) | 2 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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