Analysis of Rienzi Crusz, brown in snowfall
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
"This is all there is and this is everything" - JOYCE CAROL OATES
Take my poems--
I have nothing else of value to give you.
fruits
of lonely nights, faithful candles
that flamed and sputtered until
my metaphors were right.
Take my poems--
my kingdom of fears in harness,
days of silence
when my neighbouring world
danced its tumultuous jig
and laughed.
Take my poems--
they were born with a brown skin,
sang with a brown voice,
danced a brown jig, preserved,
until the cold white paper
took in my words with the music
and fatted calf of the prodigal story.
Take my poems--
my umber heart my umber words,
the forgotten pain, the remembered music,
the new landscape,
why I thought God was a poem,
the poem, the only cosmic poet.
Take my poems--
mostly, because I love you,
they are the bloodstones
of my youth, fading footsteps of age,
small bouquets
that may, perhaps, survive a little while
like a memory.
Nothing else comes to mind--
the house is only wood and cabook,
the money is paper.
Scheme | a Bcxxxx Bxxxdx Bxxxefg Bxfxxx Bcaxxxg xde |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011101101 1110 11101110111 1 11011010 1101001 110001 1110 11011010 1110 1111 111001 01 1110 1011011 11011 101101 0101110 10111010 0111010010 1110 111111 00101001010 011 11111010 0100101010 1110 1001111 1101 11110111 101 1101010101 10100 101111 01110101 010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,014 |
Words | 208 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 7, 6, 7, 3 |
Lines Amount | 36 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 110 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
Remembering our provocative/jesting Waterloo poet. Nurtured in steamy Sri Lanka. Translated to snowy Ontario. Rienzi’s piece, not Doug’s
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Written on April 15, 2013
Submitted by dougb.72572 on February 01, 2023
Modified by dougb.72572 on February 03, 2023
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