Analysis of Your turn

Kevin Dineen 1942 (Brooklyn)



                   Your Turn
As I walked a fiery Autumn road,
   I all but missed the maples bleeding red,
Willows weeping leaves now tinged and yellowed,
   a Pollack canvas, titled “Summer’s fled.”

Tumbling rainbows barely brushed my eyes,
    and leaves rushed by in colors with no mane.
I stared senseless at the fall-bright skies,
    Fall present...past, sometimes to me the same.

But, then, I turned and you were by my side,
    your eyes intense and taking all this in.
For all these years, my teacher and my guide
    in picking out the colors as they spin.

In turn, you help a color-blind man see.
    Now take my hand and name new hues for me.


Scheme XABAB CXCX DEDE FF
Poetic Form Tetractys  (27%)
Metre 11 1110100101 1111010101 11011101 0101010101 100110111 0111010111 111010111 11011101 1111010111 1101010110 1111110011 0101010111 0111010111 1111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 664
Words 128
Sentences 8
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 4, 2
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 28

About this poem

I have written six traditional sonnets over the years. I feel that I have a good sense of form married to sense

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Written on December 20, 2020

Submitted by Mickev00 on April 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kevin Dineen

I am always a teacher. I spent over fifty years in classrooms from secondary to graduate. Poetry is more than an avocation for me. It’s my life work more…

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