Analysis of The Bird Queen

Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)



The gentle touch of fingertips
On the outside of my arm
As the sun crawls over the windowsill
Plasmatic molasses
Lighting our togetherness
In the chilled predawn of possibility
That lovers waste on pleasures

Her whispers invade, auditory amphibious
Soldiers; this beach is mine
They cry, in porcelain fragility
But although she is like the daisy
Her petals are razors, whetted by trial
But they are petals still

I miss the curve of her ankle
Erotic geometry
Eyes of Tenerife, ethereal
Spun gold threads hang;
A crown.


Scheme XXAXBCX BXCCAA ACAXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101110 1011111 10111001 1010 10100100 0010110100 1101110 010011000100 101111 1101000100 11111010 01011010110 111101 11011010 0100100 1110100 1111 01
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 533
Words 103
Sentences 2
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 6, 5
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 29

About this poem

For Jenny

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Written on March 13, 2021

Submitted by BradyB999 on March 14, 2022

Modified on April 11, 2023

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