Analysis of A Nascent Mind Unfolding
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
A nascent mind unfolding.
Filled with awe and wonder;
Of the composition of the universe.
And its secrets needing exploration.
And so a small child wonders.
Perked with combustible energy,
To survey Earth’s cornucopia;
And to open Pandora’s treasure box.
The magical nature of wonderment
Is native to a child’s growing mind.
Curiosity sparked by inquisitiveness;
Of how the world is organized.
What adults often take for granted,
What they often fail to remember,
Is how they too were curious
And asked so many questions.
With such a thought I spied a child;
My very own granddaughter.
Legs crossed, and looking upwards,
Towards God’s firmament.
Beneath the Autumn starry skies,
Embraced by Earth’s verdant grass,
Unhindered by both Time and Space,
I saw her poised in wonderment.
Her imagination without limit.
Alone in her mind; at one with the world;
A budding artist, the world as her canvas,
Admiring what God has all created.
A preschool child immersed in drawing
What light can barely capture:
The image of a nascent mind unfolding
What God has gifted mankind.
A child reminding her grandfather,
To once more look and wonder;
How God paints with his rainbow colors,
All things that grace this world.
His mighty firmament above
Embracing earthly creatures:
Plants, animals, the trees; and people.
And a child cushioned in God’s green grass.
Scheme | ABCX DXXX EFCX GBHX XBXE XIXE XJHG ABAF BBDJ XDXI |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (28%) |
Metre | 0101010 111010 100101010 011010010 0101110 111100 10110100 01101101 0100101100 110101101 0100111 1101110 101101110 111011010 11110100 0111010 11011101 110110 1101010 0111 01010101 0111101 01011101 11010100 000100110 0100111101 01010011010 0101111010 001101010 1111010 01010101010 1111011 01010010 1111010 11111110 111111 110101 0101010 110001010 001100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,369 |
Words | 266 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 10 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 40 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
About this poem
New York’s Briana Pu-Folkes is an adorable precocious, imaginative, bilingual four-year old granddaughter, who likes to write, tell stories, take pictures, and paint or draw pictures. Her most recent composition of December 2022, is that of her ensconced in Earth’s luscious green grass of late Autumn, as she stares admiringly above, and beholds the wonderful display of the multitude of stars that light up and decorate the firmament in preparation of the Christmastide. Briana is at peace with herself in her celestial solitude. This four-stanza unrhymed quatrain pays tribute to the heart, mind, soul, and spirit of four-year old Briana Pu-Folkes. Briana, the world is your cornucopia. This poem is also especially written, reminiscent of the English Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) who, in expressing his thoughts concerning that ‘Countree Far beyond the stars,’ declared lyrically in rhyming verse: “If thou canst but thither There grows the flower of peace The rose that cannot wither Thy fortress and thy ease.” A Pantheistic and nascent Existentialist, Shelley believed that Nature or a Divine Spirit of Beauty was an eternal force that ran through everything in human existence. It is that ‘Countree Far Beyond the Stars’ that four-year old Briana also recognizes and reaches out to in her nascent artwork. more »
Written on December 18, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 18, 2022
Modified by karlcfolkes on April 29, 2023
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