Analysis of A dolphin’s song
Charles Fields II 1955 (Fort Bragg, NC)
The hour is 2
though i feel not the slightest
hint, inclination, or desire
To move towards the comfort and rest
Between the bed sheets
Some light within my mind
ushers in the awareness
To a call for me to further rise,
a calling to me to waken
from the depths of my depression
+the hour is late
All more urgent i to the spirit send
Prevailing upon
my forward seeking senses,
Shattering the very heart
of the illusion (at once)
Unconditionally rendering obsolete
from the memories and musings
20 questions of the heart
i would have only fed into the mouth
of this portal where i watch
As thru a web
within a forest of my dreams
This time machine i ride
Alone this time
As cosmic echoes
transmuted into whale song
abruptly materialize
in the realm between my thoughts
Spontaneously arriving from a place
In nether space time
As i am cast adrift
Falling into a vortex in slow motion
As the moon sleeps
the Creator touches my heart
Breathing new life Into
an ever expanding universe of dreams
Staring out into empty space,
Wondering why am i here
Trying to figure out
what it means to live this life
Spawning clusters of stardust
bathed in an eerie glow
Emerging horizons spilling thru
filling the gaps creating fusion
Penetrating storm clouds
emerging from within the abyss
As they ply it seems, aimlessly
to and fro
From a light beaming spontaneously
throughout
i falter
Unsure of what it means
Where Creators touch
breathes life into us all
His most precious gift, freely given
not in words, but actions which speak
Multiplying expressions of a voice
which brings only endless love
Yearning to decipher
the message within,
Knowing somehow unwritten songs
are the codes of life to live by.
From within The chasm
Erupts a cosmic eye
subtly awakening,
Opens
ushering in the new day
as it comes into being
amidst the chaos within itself
Spawning rivers of emotions
which dance Natural rhythms
Drumbeats calling
Its cadence inducing a hypnotic trance
Where we individually align
come together Following signs
Gather for a spiritual migration
Following ancient pathways
With a feeling
which goes from nothingness
to completeness
Soft explosions,
between underlying currents
We begin to feel loving thoughts
Flowing effortlessly within us
as In telling
A transcendental truth
About these
newly discovered emotions
In the matrix
Scheme | A BC XX X DE FF XX XA GX XX GX X XH XI XX EJ KI X F XG LH KX MX BN LF XX ON OM CX XX FX XX CX XP XPQ RX QX RX QX XX FX QDD RX JD QX XR X |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (31%) Tetractys (23%) |
Metre | 0101 1111010 10101010 110101001 01011 110111 1000010 101111101 01011110 10111010 01011 1110110101 01001 1101010 1000101 1001011 0100010010 10100010 10101 1111010101 1110111 1101 01010111 110111 0111 11010 10111 0100100 0010111 01000010101 01011 111101 10010100110 1011 00101011 101101 1100101011 10101101 1001111 101101 1111111 101011 101101 010010101 100101010 10011 010101001 11111100 101 1011001000 01 110 011111 10101 110111 111011010 10111011 100010101 1110101 101010 01001 1010101 10111111 101010 10101 1000100 10 1000011 1110110 010100101 10101010 1110010 110 11001000101 110100001 10101001 10101000010 100101 1010 111100 1010 1010 0101010 10111101 101000011 1010 00101 011 10010010 0010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,489 |
Words | 523 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 47 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 90 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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