Analysis of Lava Lover
John Jessup Kennan 1953 (Pomona)
woman dark-
skinned stands
near
ground, smoking
mother
to volcano
has she lost
all?
somewhere
in the universe
flying robots send
images
man
in suit
speaks
people sprint
through dirt streets
dodge cattle throwing
bottle rockets
men in
uniformity never change
expression
technological experience
matters
little
each
fledgling learns to
fly on its
own
her deep rich
eyes are
brown as
earth
as color of a
child's hair
as sweetness of
chocolate
kisses
her flaming
hair
a purifying
fire
coals preparing a
feast
rusted
hinges on our
sabotaged
past
does she
wait for the
earth to put
forth its first
seedling of the new
season
or
does she
wait for the
earth to swallow
her
up?
© John Kennan, 2000
| Scheme | xxxabc xx dxxe xxx xxax xxf xxx xgxx xxxxhdxxe adabhxxbxx IHxxgfx IHcbx f |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 11 1 110 10 1010 111 1 1 0010 1011 100 1 01 1 101 111 11010 1010 10 0100101 010 01000100 10 10 1 1011 111 1 011 11 11 1 11010 11 1101 10 10 010 1 0100 10 10100 1 10 10110 10 1 11 110 111 111 10101 10 1 11 110 1110 0 1 110 |
| Characters | 672 |
| Words | 120 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 13 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 4, 3, 4, 3, 3, 4, 9, 10, 7, 5, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 61 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 9 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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