Analysis of To loose the marble spell
Gaze at the marble block
see the grain that marks the cut
The tools of the sculptor
are in the hands
Strike a bold plan.
The shape therein
a brief moment is seen
Only to be lost in the flurry
of creation
As the chisels ordered precision
wedge-shapes the pale virgin.
Pieces in life fly away
splintered bits, the stuff of dreams
Cuts in draft but never finished
Surveyor’s chains abandoned
in valleys scarred.
Somehow the block survives
and the shape therein,
though there seems to be
a lost momentum
in the carvers hand.
And always the pattern unfolds
to weary the dreamer
Who finds his dreams
auguries to predictions
of relentless natural laws.
But wait,
a niche
a scratch out of pattern
and unknown
not discovered by perspectives’ eye.
To build a life from this
To create a turning
without warning
An errant touch of the
chisel
Sends hurling a maximum-path
for the dreamer.
To take this path
as dream dissolves into reality
To cast this mold
on the shape therein
To vision and encourage
to serve the craft well
is to master the age and art
and loose the marble spell.
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Metre | 110101 1011101 011010 1001 1011 0101 011011 101110010 1010 101010010 110110 1001101 1010111 10111010 0101010 0101 10101 00101 11111 01010 00101 0101001 110010 1111 11010 10101001 11 01 011110 001 101010101 110111 101010 0110 110110 10 11001001 1010 1111 11010110 1111 10101 1100010 11011 11100101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,028 |
Words | 193 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 7, 8 |
Lines Amount | 46 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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