Analysis of Ekphrastic



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
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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Rebecca Wolff

Born and raised in New York City, Rebecca Wolff earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her poetry collections include One Morning— (2015); The King (2009); Figment (2004), winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Manderley (2001), selected for the 2001 National Poetry Series. In the Harvard Review, Ellen Davis writes, “Wolff’s darkly funny, urbane poems offer observations on gender, work, motherhood, social life, sex, writing, and literature. … These poems give us memorable, highly original figments.” more…

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