Analysis of When I feel these fears, I sense the horsemen



When I feel these fears, I sense the horsemen,
who chase on chilly nights from dream to dream.
I hear their steeds seek within the shadows,
where embower'd air I breathe does flee from me.
When I do count the misery unleashed
upon earthly beings that knew no evil,
I hear broken wings of angels fallen.
I see them steal the souls of those asleep.
When I inhale the dust within this space,
I breathe both life and death, its beauty's truths,
and taste the tears of winter's sleeping rose,
where marbled angels fill the nights with grace.
I sense the sleeping souls that will awake
as a chamber's mist, waiting for release.
And when the emerald in the rainbow sees
the one with seven twice within its crown:
Then this dream does glean as a witness tree,
seven opened seals and seven trumpets sound.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 796
Words 159
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 630
Words per stanza (avg) 145

About this poem

Cemetery Series #11. Possibly, thoughts of an angel assigned to guard the graves of sleeping souls. Written during three scrying sessions over the dates of July 8, 2023 - early August 2023.

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Written on August 09, 2023

Submitted by MichaelEugeneCantrall on September 27, 2023

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Michael Eugene Cantrall

Photopoetry is my preferred genre. My particular approach to this form is to pair a poem I've written, usually open to various interpretations, with a photograph or video that may suggest a similar or contrasting interpretation. Also, unlike Ekphrastic art poetry, these poems arrive before the search for the photo or video. The poem is the prompt for a photo in waiting. more…

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