Analysis of The Bird Queen
Brady Bowen 1973 (Louisiana)
The gentle touch of fingertips
On the outside of my arm
As the sun crawls over the windowsill
Plasmatic molasses
Lighting our togetherness
In the chilled predawn of possibility
That lovers waste on pleasures
Her whispers invade, auditory amphibious
Soldiers; this beach is mine
They cry, in porcelain fragility
But although she is like the daisy
Her petals are razors, whetted by trial
But they are petals still
I miss the curve of her ankle
Erotic geometry
Eyes of Tenerife, ethereal
Spun gold threads hang;
A crown.
Scheme | XXAXBCX BXCCAA ACAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101110 1011111 10111001 1010 10100100 0010110100 1101110 010011000100 101111 1101000100 11111010 01011010110 111101 11011010 0100100 1110100 1111 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
About this poem
For Jenny
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Written on March 13, 2021
Submitted by BradyB999 on March 14, 2022
Modified on April 11, 2023
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