Analysis of Champagne and Maritime Pines
Brian S. Clifton 1975 (Ohio)
While keeping oneself to one's self,
feelings kept close to the chest,
I close my eyes and take a deep breath
and imagine open fields, windswept.
A breeze blows in from the Mediterranean,
salt-tinged, from a place I've never been.
Carrying scents yet unfamiliar to me
upon wind gusts from a nearby beach.
I'm standing beneath a pink-tawny sky
dyed the colors of Champagne, France.
Looking over panoramic landscapes—
paddock checkered and fence-lined.
The Mistral wind strolls over rolling hillocks
and crosses clover-covered knolls,
causing shamrock leaves to briefly turn over,
a green to silver shimmering in its wake.
This leaves me imagining sea waves
invading a serene mirrored lake
'til inevitably meeting its windbreak
on a distant tree line of tall Maritime Pines.
I notice the ground I'm standing on
is completely covered in four-leaf clovers
so I decide to sit down, cross-legged
and look for three-leaf clovers instead.
What was once keeping me to myself
is now a field of growth within.
Feelings no longer kept close to my chest
but expressed and shared with the wind.
Scheme | ABXX XCXX DEXF EEXG XGDX XEXX ACBF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111 1011101 111101011 00101011 01101000100 111011101 1001101011 011110111 1100101101 10101011 10100101 1010011 0101110101 01010101 1011110110 01110100011 111010011 010001101 1010001011 10101111101 110011101 1010100111 111111110 01111101 11110111 11011101 1011011111 10101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,114 |
Words | 212 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Written on October 22, 2022
Submitted by Locutus2999 on November 13, 2022
Modified on April 11, 2023
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