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
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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Joseph Berolo

Joseph Berolo, Colombian born. swiss italian descendant. Poet and writer founder of Naciones Unidas de las Letras, United Nations of the Arts dedicated to promote world peace and harmony through the teaching of poetry and the Fine Arts in the heart and minds of young people,. more…

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