Analysis of The Viole(n)t Cat
I hear you
Outside my winter studio
Moaning in the alley below my bedroom window
Calling for god the machine of all magics
All spells written on our bodies
All the right incense of rank summer
The flowers breaking through the confusion
You speak for all of us
By that I mean me
You speak for me myself and I
This morning tomorrow’s and
My midnight always now, moan for me
I moan full bridge
Field of lavender
The bridge to Olosega
White sand road and men’s voices
Beneath the road flows the sea between two islands
Lavender stream
The spirits of the sea
My lovers
| Scheme | XAABBCX BDXXDXCXBBXBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (20%) |
| Metre | 111 1111010 100010011110 1011001111 111011010 101011110 0101010010 111111 11111 1111101 110010 1111111 1111 11100 0111 1110110 010110101110 1001 010101 110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 568 |
| Words | 107 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7, 13 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 228 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
About this poem
Copyright © 2022 by Dan Taulapapa McMullin. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on May 24, 2022, by the Academy of American Poets. “I wrote this in a moment of insomnia, in bed on a snowy winter night, while a cat moaned in the alley; while remembering moments of my life in the South Pacific and the bridge between Olosega and Ofu islands, where the reef runs lavender and serene, and powerful currents drift and carry one far, far away.”
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Written on 2022
Submitted by Drone232 on May 27, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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