Analysis of The Day After It Rained
Darren R Briggs 1959 (CA)
The Day After It Rained
The day after it rained
On this gilded morning
Wrapped in wind and sun
Constant sorrow creates
Its own weather
Imitating something real
Behind the sky
My wounded heart beating
As fragile as it is resilient
A thousand wings flutter
Undertones beneath the chords
The resonance of existence
Bring these bones to life
With every evaporating instant
Blurring the lines
Dividing past and present
These landscapes grow emptier
And quieter each passing year
Afraid of a holy fear
Searching for fullness
My sense of things may shift
With the telling of the story
The connection I felt standing
Underneath the trees
Wanting to communicate
With delicious accuracy
And a purposeful perspective
Time bends and doubles back
It may exist elsewhere
I have mourned and mused
And all this distillation of loveliness
Conceals something of little worth
The golden sun has a fading patina
As I wait for the rebirth of wonder
Understanding that even
The dust is sacred
Scheme | A Abxcdx xbedxx xexedf fxxgbx xgxxxx cxxdxx |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011 011011 111010 10101 101001 1110 100101 0101 110110 110111010 010110 100101 01001010 11111 1100010010 1001 0101010 111100 01001101 0110101 10110 111111 10101010 00101110 0101 101010 10101000 00100010 110101 11011 11101 01101011 01101101 01011010010 1111001110 010110 01110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 985 |
Words | 178 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
About this poem
This poem was written on New Year’s Eve. It is a reflection on life, love, loss and the sorrow that I experienced during the first year of the pandemic. The phrase “rebirth of wonder” was a nod to Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poem, I Am Waiting.
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