Analysis of Ever Ephemeral
Mystery slips to simplicity, if left alone,
Freed from duality’s monotone.
It’s the colorless crux under an artist’s brush.
It’s a wisp of a kiss; leaves dancing in a rush.
In mystery’s quest, the brain wrests and bends.
In unrequited time, the heart weeps and rends.
Evolving bodies, locked in time and space.
No pride nor prize in our pointless race.
The heart wants, so for mystery we’ll aspire.
A soul’s stance, tethers to transient desire.
Yet mystery leaves room to reach and ascend,
Keeps a promise of process, ineffable to the end.
Mystery nestles in shards and rests,
In split dimensions, to essence it attests.
No solving; Let’s surrender to the marred and pure,
Exalted and damned; we acquiesce to its allure.
Our lives unfold in ether’s nest.
From birth to urn, yet when we rest,
Back to secrets, we’re sure to plummet.
To its eternal spark, no hell nor summit.
---Al Bartolis 3/19/2020
Scheme | AABB CCDD XXEE FFGG HHII C |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001101001101 11110 101001101101 101101110001 01101101 0010101101 0101010101 1111010101 01111100101 01110110010 11001111001 1010110100101 100100101 01010110101 110101010101 010011011101 101010101 11111111 111001110 11010111110 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,022 |
Words | 185 |
Sentences | 16 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
About this poem
Mystery is the cornerstone of our existence.
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