Analysis of Her dampest flight

AMG 1980 (Lagos)



Something good is sometimes hideous
A plight I sought roughly unhindered
Seeking escapades, craving headstone

For, I felt so impaired and emptied
And this egregious night could not mop,
Away with this mediocre hoary bod

So I joined and soar and raced the clouds
Telling folklores, fairy tales - unheard-of
Belittling the cloak of the mighty heaven

Enchanted, I thus seek and fear
Volution! Solution! evolution
But I vote volition against my flock

In hysteria, in hoodoo
For a distance that killed my voodoo
Like some fictitious foods in a distant igloo

My gallivant wit needs a soothing need
This aching soma is now a needy senile gull
Halt comrades! I need to slurp and lull

Soliloquizing, I heard 'Hey quirky, you pecking?'
Asked a spooky monkey, whistling and swinging
Lie! lie! I won't heed your delirous hunt

Flitting back to when sturdy wax unsteadily
When conscious conscience battles the williwaw
Next, my thoughts rejig to a celestial chorus

Bah bah bah, Blah blah blah
I sang, I swayed, then sank
Strayed in this quest as I finally perched on him

A forlorn wisdom hidden in a sagely hood
(An epic acumen veiled beneath sacred woods)
And away flew woe and my doomed mood

I saw. I frank, then shrank
Baby sucks mother’s breast from the back
And I cranked

As a house of horror became my coveted realm
Why then, this troubled my bank of tears
While bluffing and blinking, I blanked

'Let this emptiness come with hooting joy
In lieu of envies which heavily bred this forte'
Taught, tonight, to me, by my heroic lone monk

In secret
In yoga
In India


Scheme ABX CXB XXD XDX BEE CFF GGX FXA XHX XXX HXI XXI XXX XJJ
Poetic Form
Metre 101101100 011110010 1010101 111101010 010101111 0111010101 111010101 101101011 010001101010 01011101 1010010 1110100111 0010001 10101111 110101001010 11110101 110101101011 11111101 111110110 10101010010 11111111 101111011 110101001 11111001010 111111 111111 101111100111 00110100011 110010101101 001110111 111111 101101101 011 1011100111001 111101111 11001011 111001111 011111001110 101111101011 010 010 0100
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,568
Words 290
Sentences 8
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 42
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 20

About this poem

A monstrous old bird, little gull, left her migrating flock to feed and later got lost. Finally she found herself in the forest house of an aged monk in India

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Written on April 18, 2021

Submitted by gabrabimbola on March 18, 2022

Modified by gabrabimbola on March 18, 2022

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