I need help on starting this poem?

Question

i have to write a philosophical poem with the same rhyme scheme and the same number of syllables per line as the poem below.

i'm not sure what to write about..any ideas? just a few lines would help a lot. thx

After great pain a formal feeling comes--

The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;

The stiff Heart questions--was it He that bore?

And yesterday--or centuries before?

The feet, mechanical, go round

Of Ground, or Air, or Ought

A wooden way

Regardless grown,

A quartz contentment, like a stone.

This is the hour of lead

Remembered if outlived,

As freezing persons recollect the snow--

First chill, then stupor, then the letting go

Answer 1

it is fine now

Answer 2

of great pain comes formal feeling

my mind it races and is really realing

meds dont work thats for sure

this life of pain i must endure

Answer 3

Okay, I'm really bad at poetry, but I felt bad that no one answered your question.

It seems to me that, as regards the first stanza of the poem, the conventional iambic pentameter obtains in the rhyme abcc, with the rhyming couplet, "bore...before", being the most conspicuous feature. (though, I really suck at the whole scansion thing, so it might not actually be iambic, sorry :)  ) Anyways, I thought this was the poet's way of communicating the formal, anesthetized mood of death, funerals, etc. The form of the poem is supposed to communicate this, but as the meter slowly unravels, and the number of syllables per line in the second stanza become more incongruous, the narrator starts to come to terms with grief by moving beyond the conventions of form. Think: iambic pentameter=stuffy, black-habited people at funeral, all other meter=free-thinking irish wake. Anyways, I'd start out with something in your poem that is way too formal, and almost seems cliche, while still hewing to the conventional meter and rhyme, so maybe you could do something like this:

Coalesced the world and body in rest

As the morn mist palled down and all was blessed.

Like I said I'm a most sh*tty poet, so I'm sure you can do better. Oh, and, though I would never want to offend the esteemed users of Yahoo Answers, most of the people who answer these questions don't know sh*t about real literature (like me), so you probably would do better to consult a teacher or something.

Anyhoo, I hope I helped a smidge. Oh, and maybe you could answer my question, it's a few line before yours in the General-Arts & Humanities section, But if you don't that's cool, :)