Analysis of COVID-19 Reflection!



The world in alarm.
It’s a virus gone postal.
Call it pandemic!


Scheme ABC
Poetic Form Haiku 
Tercet 
Metre 01001 1010110 11010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 65
Words 14
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3
Lines Amount 3
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 48
Words per stanza (avg) 12

About this poem

Acrostic: “Haiku Mapping” Havoc! All over. In all parts of the globe. Killing humanity. Upsetting the world. Mankind’s disaster. A time for reflection. People may shudder. People may wonder. Is this a divine sign. Nature’s way of a warning: “Get your damn act together!”

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Written on December 24, 2021

Submitted by karlcfolkes on December 24, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Karl Constantine FOLKES

Retired educator of Jamaican ancestry with a lifelong interest in composing poetry dealing particularly with the metaphysics of self-reflection; completed a dissertation in Children’s Literature in 1991 at New York University entitled: An Analysis of Wilhelm Grimm’s ‘Liebe Mili’ (translated into English as “Dear Mili”), Employing Von Franzian Methodological Processes of Analytical Psychology. The subject of the dissertation concerned the process of Individuation. more…

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