Analysis of AT THE FOOT OF A CASTLE

John Lars Zwerenz 1970 (New York)



AT THE FOOT OF A CASTLE

At the foot of a castle in the gilded, setting sun,
In the warm and fragrant air of a summer’s belvedere,
Through a deep, dense forest a river does run
Winnowing through the trees, azure hued and clear.

And in the languorous evenings, when the stars appear like wines,
As harbingers of autumn, in the dusky, turquoise sky
A maiden of regalia, from epochs long gone by
Walks out upon the terrace, gazing on the pines.

Her flowing, dark mane is lovely, long and fair
And her royal gaze is of the sacred night
When songbirds sing in the sad moonlight
Above the many fountains rising in the square.

John Lars Zwerenz


Scheme X ABAB CDDC EFFE C
Poetic Form
Metre 1011010 10110100010101 0010101101001 10111001011 1010110101 0001101010111 1100110001101 0101010110111 110101010101 01011110101 00101110101 1110011 010101010001 111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 642
Words 128
Sentences 4
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 1
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 24

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Written on December 01, 2021

Submitted by angelabradford2 on December 03, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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John Lars Zwerenz

About John Lars Zwerenz John L. Zwerenz is an American journalist, essayist, novelist and poet. (1) Zwerenz was born in 1970 in New York City to a wealthy family. His father and mother both descended from multiple generations of Anglo Saxon Americans. Zwerenz' father became actively involved in local and state conservative politics, and contributed both time and money to further the power of several right wing elected officials. Zwerenz' poetry first appeared in many literary publications during the late 1980's and early '90s. Hundreds of poems written during this time were composed by Zwerenz as an undergraduate student at New York City's Queens College from which he graduated with honors in 1992. (2) After a failed attempt to earn a living in conservative employment, Zwerenz began an extensive period of travel, writing what would eventually make up the bulk of his later published works in such places as London and Paris. In 2014, Zwerenz was hired by Emage Magazine International, a widely published in print arts publication as the magazine's poetry writer which resulted in the wide exposure of Zwerenz' vanity published poetry books leading to a series of contracts with traditional publishing firms, both in the United Kingdom and in the States. His subsequent published poetic volumes were highly successful and his earlier works rose dramatically in price. (3) Zwerenz' productive and inspiring career was brought together in a single anthology, spanning eleven volumes. Published by Green Frog Publishing in February of 2020, The Complete Anthology encapsulated Zwerenz' entire published poetic catalog. Often examining the pain that comes with romantic love, many of the poems in this collection were built around the theme of that sensation. From Visionary Wanderings to Mystic Wines, each volume offers its own unique approaches to the craft. The prolific output of the author in this tome reflects a sharp mind, educated in and inspired by the poetic greats, as well as an identified and honed passion for the craft. The main elements of Zwerenz' verse are romantic and impressionistic in nature. Zwerenz’s structure and meter are provided with a natural feel that many poets fail to capture. (4) (5) (6) One example of Zwerenz' poetry is printed below, taken from his "The Grave and other Poems": The Grave In the clouded, dusky afternoon As you hear the clang of a swaying bell The rising ring of its dreadful knell Ascends to the dreary, lifeless moon. As cryptic winds through dead boughs pass Below one tombstone's familiar name Another soul the demons claim Beneath grim reeds and yellow grass. And when dawn arrives with miasmic dew Upon the wanton meadow and its horrid grave A being there moans, too late to save - None other than the likes of you! John Lars Zwerenz © 2020 The Grave and other Poems JFBradley (talk) 16:53, 3 January 2021 (UTC) ~~~James Francis Bradley References Sources: 1:[1] 2: [2] 3:[3] 4:[4] 5:[5] 6:[6] Photo of American Poet of John Lars Zwerenz.jpg Notes This article "John L Zwerenz" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:John L Zwerenz. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one. https://www.amazon.com/John-Lars-Zwerenz/e/B007RHXDLM%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share https://m.alibris.com/search/books/author/John-Lars-Zwerenz# https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-lars-zwerenz-96a38554 https://www.theusreview.com/reviews/John-Lars-Zwerenz-The-Complete-Anthology-by-John-Lars-Zwerenz.html#.X_HlQbdOnqs https://www.pinterest.com/stewardcynthia/?invite_code=aef4eb0833c848b5a504b51110000bd1&sender=716705865608235071 https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Lars+Zwerenz&oq=John+Lars+Zwerenz&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l2.4180j0j7&client=ms-android-tmus-us-revc&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 You are outside the CCPA jurisdiction. Share  more…

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