Analysis of Flint Hills, Eternal

Phillip Albert King 1944 (Manhattan)



Roses splashed in a cotton cloud,
Blushing rim-rock and prairie proud,
While thistle shake their purple plumb,
To grace these hills in Eden's shroud.

Darkly, in distant squalls that loom,
Whose fragrant breath is their perfume,
Whispers its misty song to me,
A quiet tune of days consume.

Tumbling blue-stem's grassy sea,
Ebbs and flows upon the lea,
A benediction in the wind,
Edging my eternity.

Past wire-barbed roads that seldom bend,
Gravel paved and never end,
Just stream beyond horizons' free,
Finding perhaps, immortality.


Scheme AAXA BBCB CCXC DDCC
Poetic Form Quatrain  (25%)
Metre 10100101 10110101 11011101 1111011 10010111 11011101 10110111 01011101 10011101 1010101 0010001 1010100 110111101 1010101 11010101 10010100
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 534
Words 103
Sentences 4
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 21

About this poem

The Flint hills, with tall blue-stem prairie grass, and limestone shelf rim-rock, are and have been a place I like to remember.

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Written on June 13, 2022

Submitted by phil0238 on June 13, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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