Analysis of My Mount Angel
Daniel Millard 1976 (Medford, OR)
Mist falls over
Red clay mountains
Wild horses graze
Moving across steep slopes
Like floating statues
Calling
Gently calling my name
So I rise up and
I climb
I spent the summer
Exploring the reds and the greens
In a small box
I held a secret fear
Half expecting
Rattlesnakes
But found no such thing
At the base of this mountain
Where wild creatures bow
Spreading their
Wings
Following the red paths of the
Paint and her foal
I reach the top and
I realize that
They have moved on
Again they are out of my sight
Though not at all
Out of my mind
Standing upon new ground
I see that
The mare had led me
From the trail of tears
Our tracks
Left far behind
Yet deeply
Into the red earth and
Now I find joy in
Collecting sun-bleached
Bones and the
Skulls of animals with
Very sharp teeth
These dry and brittle remnants
Reminding me of
Just how alive I truly am
Each feather that I find
I add to the wings
Of my very own soul
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIAJKLFMFNOPQRSHTUVWXYTZ1 2 XZH3 4 R5 6 7 8 9 XQS |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 1110 1101 100111 1101 10 101011 11110 11 11010 01001001 0011 110101 1010 10 11111 1011110 11101 101 1 10001110 1001 11010 1101 1111 01111111 1111 1111 100111 111 01111 10111 101 1101 110 010110 11110 01011 100 111001 1011 1101010 01011 11011101 110111 11101 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 873 |
Words | 180 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 47 |
Lines Amount | 47 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 736 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 180 |
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