Analysis of My Doe-Doe Sweetheart
Karl Constantine FOLKES 1935 (Portland)
To my Dao De Pu,
God brought you into my life,
My “Doe-Doe” sweetheart.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Haiku Tercet |
| Metre | 11111 1110111 1111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 75 |
| Words | 16 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
About this poem
Ode to My Better Half: “East is East and West is West; and yet the twain shall marry for the best.” In 1959, while a foreign student at Howard University in Washington, D.C., I met and fell in love with a Burmese-Karen fellow foreign student named Florence Pu with the given pet name of Doe-Doe (“Dao-De”), literally the manifested “DAO.” In 1962, I married “Doe-Doe.” Ever since, I remain perpetually with my my Florence Pu, with my Doe-Doe, with my Dao-De Pu, in enduring love, friendship and marriage, united as One. Interestingly, by grace of synchronicity, Florence Pu bears the maiden surname of “Pu” which, in the Chinese language means “unworked wood; inherent quality; simple,” an earliest Daoist metaphor for the natural state of humanity which Florence epitomizes with her humanitarian spirit. This 5-7-5 three-line syllabic meter Katuata poem is dedicated to our enduring fellowship and union. more »
Written on February 25, 2023
Submitted by karlcfolkes on February 25, 2023
Modified by karlcfolkes on February 26, 2023
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