Analysis of Ekphrastic
Rebecca Wolff 1967
there are some things up there
uptown
I want to see
I want to see I'm going to look at that and see
I want to go up and see
that show. That show
I went to see, I went to see.
There are some things up
there uptown
I want to
look at that and see. I'm going to see
what I look. What I look at, when I look, vessel,
I stood to see. I went to stand to look
to see. Venturing further I went outside myself to look
at that wall. It fed! There was a box inside that was not blank, I saw it.
It was really different from an aura, the thing had
colors, the thing was talking
to itself. And spoke
to me, not incidentally.
Scheme | XA B B B X B X A X B X C CXX X X B |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 11 1111 1111110111101 1111101 1111 11111111 11111 111 111 1110111011 111111111110 1111111111 11100101111111 111111101011111111 11101001110011 1001110 10101 1110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 645 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 29 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
About this poem
Rebecca Wolff, "Ekphrastic" from One Morning—. Copyright © 2015 by Rebecca Wolff. Reprinted by permission of the author and Wave Books.
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Written on 2015
Submitted by Drone232 on July 09, 2022
Modified on April 18, 2023
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