Analysis of A Soul Cart Creaks
Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)
As possibilities crumble to ash
around the caster-feet I bolted to my heart
these little wheels, canted, noisy, wind-wobbly.
Neutronic heaviness forced this modification-this ambulatory abomination that is dragged behind me by a chain wrapped hastily around and knotted, carefully gripped by hands covered in scar-webs.
The eyes of the watchers are fever-bright
savoring the rising mist of heartbreak
inhalation of crimson, corrosive pain
exhulting in the sweetness of my suffering
eyes heavenward but Hades birthed their joy.
I drag my soul before their gallery of sorrow
clanking links of rusty regret
make scraping noises on the stained glass
sainted floor of eternity; downtrodden ikons
in this hostility home of the cunning mind
I am weary of this shambling progress
this pilgrimage of pain
I lay myself down on the stained StStephen
he whom the wren betrayed
it’s as good a place as any.
Scheme | XXA B XXCXX XXXBX XCCXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001011 010101110111 11011101100 1111001011000001011101110111000101010011110011 0110101101 100010111 00101100101 1001011100 11110111 1111011100110 10111001 110101011 10110100101 010100110101 11101111 110011 11111011 110101 11101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 912 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Written on March 19, 2022
Submitted by BradyB999 on March 19, 2022
Modified on April 10, 2023
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