Scansion Art plays with using visual symbols to represent the rhythm, sounds, and devices used in poetry, expressing the development of patterns and overall shape of poetic forms.
Poem copyright by Kate Jo Westfall
About 14" x 32"
Framed poem and key will be provided
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Wedding Severance
This courtship ritual requires that
each man who claims he’s worth consideration
present her with a token of intent -
a finger, cut through personal donation.
She chooses from the contributions and
adorns herself with her selections, strings
the victor’s digit on a strand around
her neck, and calls him for a christening.
She decorates the victor-suitor with
a garland made from all remaining gems,
anointing the beloved with a wreath
around his chest, counting each cut stem
as measures of his higher qualities,
and of his wife’s desirability.
Acrylic paint on wood with found objects
Key
Tall heart beats indicate stressed syllables.
Short heart beats indicate unstressed syllables.
Connected beats indicate multi-syllabic words.
Matching number of dots on a beat indicate assonance within a line.
Matching shape and number of triangles on a beat indicate consonance within a line.
Matching white lines on beats indicate rhyme.
Matching keys indicate rhyme.
