Analysis of Rienzi
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
Rienzi
Local senior with flair
Moved from Sri Lanka
His heritage there.
Tales of the Crow
Or Elephant ways.
Mother’s rich kitchen
And what Father says.
Came to our Northland.
The snow and the WASP.
Brought up a family
At no meagre cost.
Thoughts of religion
Or pain, dying too.
Honouring bards who
Had helped him come through.
Silliness told in
Some jungle recalled
Big cats or serpents
And Adam’s sad Fall.
Chatted a few times
With yours truly here.
Showed the cathartic
In poems oh so dear.
Scheme | ABCBDAEAFGHIEJJJKLAMANOP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 101011 11110 11001 1101 11001 10110 01101 11101 01001 110100 1111 11010 11101 111 11111 10010 11001 11110 01011 10011 11101 10010 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 391 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 88 |
About this poem
A much valued Waterloo poet. Rienzi Crusz. One of his books is entitled How to Dance in this Rarefied Air, 2017 copyright. “Arguably the best living Sri Lankan poet in English”.
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Written on January 19, 2023
Submitted by dougb.72572 on January 19, 2023
Modified by dougb.72572 on January 19, 2023
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