Analysis of Storm: mythical proportion.
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
Go ahead
Lash me to that mast
Hair away from my eyes
Double-check the rope
Canvas all let loose
I want to feel it
Full force
This huge storm
You head below-decks
The whipping
The shrapnel that cuts
The tearing wind
The voices of lust
Those harpies
Women beasts.
That yank out
The worst in me.
Yes, me.
And I will be broken
Shown my smallness
Shown God's greatness.
And even this worst of storms
My Master's plaything
And servant
And teacher
And conditioner
And composer.
Let the message and music
Unique to this storm
Remain in my ears.
And my heart.
That I might speak
And pray and guide
With something needful.
In weeks to come.
For those who have put
Their trust in me.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMCNOPPQRRSJTUUUVHWXYZ1 2 3 P |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101 11111 101111 10101 10111 11111 11 111 11011 010 01011 0101 01011 11 101 111 0101 11 011110 1110 1110 0101111 1101 010 010 00100 0010 1010010 01111 01011 011 1111 0101 11010 0111 11111 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 673 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 37 |
Lines Amount | 37 |
Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
Words per line (avg) | 3 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 532 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 126 |
About this poem
I think it was Jason and the Argonauts who went through this mess. I loved that high school mythology. I also had a friend at my factory who could report on stuff in the Iliad just as if it were a current article in the paper. Randy P. Born, raised in Cuba. Workmates over fifteen years in a steel fabrication plant. Solid.
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Written on September 15, 2017
Submitted by dougb.72572 on February 02, 2023
Modified by dougb.72572 on February 02, 2023
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