Analysis of I ask the muses
Joseph Berolo 1934 (Bogotá)
I ask the Muses
to inspire me to write a poem
like none before composed.
To let my pen dispense
softer strokes and lines,
and rhythm and caressing psalms,
traverse the geography
of a woman’s thoughts;
To be a journey of life
through the deep confines of her land;
to let it be of mine akin.
A poem to be for all a sacred temple,
an angel painted on its dome,
a place to call the world to the sermon,
and yet, for me, alone to read.
For in verse, I would become,
by a muse so gently tamed,
my most glorious tale,
for all of the faith to hear and pray.
A Poem to You, my love proclaimed,
my tree, my limbs, and eyes,
my ears, my nest to roost
in ways, I cannot reckon.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOBPQRPSTN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 101111010 110101 111101 10101 01000101 1000100 1011 1101011 1011101 11111101 010111101010 11010111 0111011010 01110111 1011101 1011101 111001 111011101 010111101 111101 111111 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 675 |
Words | 155 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 505 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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A poem to be for all a sacred temple, an angel painted on its dome,
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